53andMe

This is a blog about my total knee replacement, and more importantly, the recovery. While every person is different, perhaps you can gain some insight from my experience in which I will endeavor to be as honest and specific as possible. My knees always felt a little dodgy. I was rather tall as a teenager (6'4"), and rather slim. I played baseball and football from the age of 8 through high school. I continued to play football at a small Division III college, then transferred to Loyola Marymount University where I played rugby, and continued to do for a number of years after graduation. Always athletic and with a large frame, I still carried only an average to thin build. My leg muscles were always weak. I was a genius at devising ways to avoid doing squats in the team weight room. After a knee injury in high school football I visited a great orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Rosenfeld who was the team doctor for the Oakland Raiders. The injury would quickly heal, but he noticed arthriti