Three Years of knee cap replacement [KCR] surgery

 


It was in the second week of Jan 2021 that I had KCR surgery at B L Kapoor Hospital in New Delhi. I have written an account of my experience of surgery earlier in my blog. Last year in Jan 23, I wrote of my experience of two years of surgery in my https://govindgujar.blogspot.com. So, it is natural for me to talk about three years of KCR surgery. I am also completing 71 years of living this January and approximately one and half-year of living in Mumbai.

Last year, this time we had planned to visit Europe, but later found out that we have a limited time to complete all formalities as we were stuck with renewal of our passports. We travelled a bit within a country, with Mumbai-A’bad-Jalna-Parbhani-3 Jyotirlings-Shirdi in June; Bharuch-Kevadia-Statue of Unity in Aug; Saurashtra visit in September; Mumbai-Pune, Mumbai-Nashik in Dec all by driving our min-SUV. An account of our travels is given in my blogs.

The Year 2023 has been a great as I increased my walking regularly. I walked about 5800 steps per day as compared to 4800 steps last year. I walked more after monsoon, as I did not like walking during rains. In house, I did some exercises related to legs, but not so regularly. My right knee always seemed to be smooth as compared to left knee while walking. Occasionally, I hear feeble krr....like sound out of knee while bending my left leg. This seems to be normal. I have started playing badminton too. Occasionally, I felt bulging weight at knees. This is not swelling. It is just a feeling. But walking pattern seems to be normal, as per the iphone app that evaluates my walking. I did not take any medicine, including calcium tablets specially for this purpose. I do occasionally take calcium and vitamin tablets irregularly, but not more than 5-6 in a month.

Occasionally, doubts about KCR surgery in terms of its 100% success do come in. I talked to a lady from the US who said that she did not feel any presence of insert over past many years. I thought that probably mine is an India-made implant used in KCR that will take time to get adjusted to feel an ease of movement at knees.

Over the past year, I also felt the impact of aging as I experienced tiredness, increased breathlessness momentarily. But, when it came to a bit of running to get in to the train, I did it as required during our SABC trip in November this year from Hyderabad-Kurnool-Guntur-Kazipeth-Hyderabad. In December, we drove from Mumbai through Ellora, A’bad, Nandura, Shegaon, Mahurgad, Machhindra-khed-Jalna-Sinnar and back to Mumbai covering a distance of about 1750 km over eight days. Some of these travels involved walking quite a bit of distance too and standing for a long time, like we spent more than two hours for the darshan at the Gajanan Maharaj temple in Shegaon. So, to be fair to the surgeon, I remain convinced of this expertise, if a bit sceptical of quality of an implant.

In December, I had been to the orthopaedic for routine consultation, as I felt need to do so and had also experienced sudden immobilization of right leg especially at calf muscles, probably due to the varicose veins. Here are my X-rays in Dec 23.

A gap between two bones, upper femur and lower tibia is quite wide and uniform in both legs to absorb walking pressures so that there is no pain felt.

A lateral view with patella [knee cap] which moves when legs are stretched.


 Anterior view with patella [knee cap] separated from lower tibia.

The orthopaedic surgeon assured me of my KCR success. As far as a sudden pain probably due to varicose veins is concerned, I need to consult the expert. This is not of regular occurrence and I do not see vein bulging out with its distinct bluish colour.

In conclusion, I am convinced of success of the KCR surgery and would definitely advise those who are suffering from the arthritis to look at this option very positively. 

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