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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:
Haven't called in for appointment yet. But went and visited a friend in the hospital today. Not very encouraging. He was in ICU for 3 days and nearly didn't make it. They moved him to a general care room yesterday so I went to visit today. He had both knees replaced. First one was done last spring and everything went great. Had the second one done about 3 weeks ago and everything seemed to have gone well just like the first one.

His wife and daughter left town because her mother was ill so he was home alone. Apparently he got an infection in both knees and didn't realize it as according to him things felt normal for where he should be in his recovery. He went to get up off the couch with his walker and said everything gave out and he hit the floor like a ton of bricks and sent his cell phone flying somewhere across the room.
He laid on the floor for 16 hours unable to move anything. His wife kept calling and he was unable to get to the phone. She finally called the police for a welfare check and they found him.

He was still pretty tired and wore down so I didn't want to give him the 100 questions but from what he told me they replaced the second knee using robotics. Apparently his wife did some research after this and found there is a high rate of some nasty infections caused by robotic surgeries.

Sounds like another 2 to 3 weeks for him in the hospital for recovery and physical therapy. man he looked bad and I felt terrible for him.

It's always been my opinion that the body does not react well to any outside invasion. You are rolling the dice every time you undergo anything but most of life is that way.