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Pain months after TKR, how do you know if it is scar build up?
It’s been 7 months since I’ve had TKR and my knee still hurts. I cannot walk steadily. Also, how do you know if you have scar build up in your knee?
Teak, have you talked to your surgeon about the pain? What was suggested? How is physical therapy going?
I’m trying blading, also call the Graston Technique.
I had Tkr 10 weeks ago and it’s still painful to get up or sit down. And at night.
This is my last shot at getting some relief. I’ve had two treatments targeting both shoulders, one replaced that I had rotator cuff surgery on in May and the other that I’ve had several surgeries on. I have a lot of pain with the replaced one and very limited range of motion.
Both knees have now been replaced and both still hurt.
I can tell a slight improvement, or maybe it’s my imagination. At this point it’s the only thing left to try.
Hello, I totally identify with your pain. It is absolutely exhausting! I am 13 months out and had a nerve ablation about a week ago. Ablation Usually only done after a year. Pain is less but feel like things are being pulled inside when I move, walking, stairs, biking, swimming. Tried shock wave therapy a few months ago but it wasn’t strong enough to do much about scar tissue. May try focused shock wave if not more improvement. I did everything the PT told me to do, daily exercises for 6 months, now twice a week plus swimming and cycling. Plus take meds at night to sleep and diclofenac during day as needed. cBD cream works well but very expensive and greasy. Keep moving as much as possible to prevent excess scarring. Have to remember you have about a one pound weight in your joint. Every day is a new day for me. Good luck!
Exhausting is the correct word.
Would you do the nerve Ablation if you had it to do over?
Doctors act like I’m a junkie when I ask for tramadol! I’m 74. If I were going to become an addict it would have happened before now.
The ablation was very minimal and the pain is less but not gone. A diagnostic test is done first and then the real deal. Very quick and relatively painless. If it wears off I can get another in 6 months which I will do if needed. I was taking 100 mg trazadone at night but made me spacey in am. Now take Lyrica and cbd/melatonin at night. Hopefully can get rid of Lyrica soon, gradually. Recommend getting myofascial release therapy as soon as possible to help prevent excessive scar tissue.
I’ve gotten in touch with a therapist and am waiting to get an appointment.Bernal is literally 2/3rds single family housing. If a property owner wants to knock down a single family building and replace it with 4 apartments, they should be able to do that as of right. 

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It was good to do something but I was a bit disappointed with them. Still now I have the momentum going with more practice I might get better.
I had great fun you should try it. I had intended that they were more folk art but I need to simplify the shapes much more. I have just come from your blog your fairy is so cute – I think you are the talented one!
Beautiful cards! Gets me into the Christmas mood! Thanks for sharing the process! I’ve always wondered!
Thank you – I am quite excited now to attempt another one so hope I can find another free day soon!
Lovely to see the process and the cards are brilliant. Absolutely beautiful.
Thank you – I need to do some for myself to save some money and use up some of my craft ‘stuff’.
These are lovely, I am sure the recipients will appreciate them. Holly and mistletoe for the next?
My thoughts exactly – they can be a more forgiving subject than doing birds. Probably try a Xmas tree too.
Fantastic – what could be better – fun with the lino ending up with a superb set of cards – time very well spent in my book. Now I think I shall have to get mine out as soon as the daughters go back to school – too busy being a taxi this week!
Must be half term then! I can certainly recommend the lino cutting I had great fun.
Your cards are so lovely. You are well organised making cards in good time.
Believe me it is less of the organisation and more of the desparation – I promised my daughter some cards for her shop weeks ago!
Not too quickly I hope – I haven’t made my own Xmas cards yet!
I have been collecting ideas for another design…but don’t want to overload your customers with too much choice!!Does God Want Me To Be Successful?
As a modern Christian man have you ever asked the question, what does it look like to be successful for me in today's world?
If we're going to talk about what success looks like, we have to first define ‘what is success’? There are a lot of questions for Christian men such as, am I supposed to be pursuing success? The first thing that may come to mind from the world standards is financial prosperity, some level of financial success and worldly status. When I say status, I am talking about the house, the car and all of the status symbols that the world is pursuing. It could be a certain level of income that you're trying to attain to as well as the title. It's all those status symbols in life that the world is pursuing and has set as the standard for what success looks like for modern men today.
What does it look like for us as kingdom men to pursue success, and should we? That is the question we need to address. Should we be pursuing success? We have already looked at how the world defines success. Most people are chasing success from a worldly perspective, worldly ambition, driven by selfish ambition, and they just want the stuff, right? The stuff that we think is going to make us happy if we finally get it and that becomes the measuring system, that becomes where we get success language from and this idea that I have ‘arrived’ when I have the next new thing.
Depending what kind of Christian tradition, you grew up in, you may have been told that we should not pursue success, that