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Originally Posted by madcorgi

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A total knee replacement is about 80% of the way to amputation--they remove a huge section of bone and joint and replace it with stainless steel, titanium, and polypropylene. The procedure is truly violent--I witnessed part of it when I came out of anesthesia during my second one. I was jarred awake by one of the docs pounding a titanium pin into my femur with a huge red plastic mallet. In my stoned state, I could feel the impacts, saw everything with surreal vividness, but felt no pain. Being of a mechanical bent myself, I was pretty interested in the proceedings, and must have grunted something out, because the anesthesiologist, eyes big as saucers above her mask, quickly reached over and adjusted something, and back off I went.

~snip~Speaking of walking, they had me up the same day as the operation, hanging onto a walker in absolute agony, despite near-lethal doses of morphine.
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really?