My Brother

We stopped to see my brother today. He is in a care center having physical therapy. He had his left knee replaced and is having quite a time with it. I guess the doctor's decided that they would do knee replacements in two ways now instead of one. In the old way, they stretch the cartilage apart and work on the bone and install the knee. The new way they cut the cartilage and do the work, put in the knee and then sew the cartilage back together. My brother has found that it takes a very long time for that cartilage to heal back together and after 4 weeks he still can't put weight on his leg without a brace. The brace is very uncomfortable and has to be on all the time except during therapy. I hope they rethink that type of surgery and don't cut any more cartilage on people unless they are much younger than my brother. And then I am not sure it will work well.

Visiting family

I need to get going this morning and go visit my brother. He had a knee replacement about three weeks ago. He has been in a physical therapy care center ever since. It has been very slow going as they cut the cartilage in his knee and sewed it back together. I guess this is one of 2 types of surgeries and it doesn't appear to me to be the best one. I have had 3 knee replacements and never had any trouble with any of them. He would love to be walking and get out of there and get home and I don't blame him one bit.