The past 3 years, prior to the move to Harbor Hills, we lived in Homosassa. I had an orthopedist there to whom I went periodically for cortisone shots. Like the orthopedist before him in Palm Beach County, he recognized that I needed a knee replacement eventually, and when I was ready, I would come back. In the meantime, though, he kept me on the court with cortisone shots, and then THE BRACE.
So Bill and I paid Dr. Petrella a visit. He has done the knee replacements on several people we know, including a tennis friend whose husband is an orthopedist in Citrus County who also does knee replacements. Any doctor who a doctor respects enough to send his wife to must be good at what he does. Dr. Petrella also did both knees of my tennis partner's husband four or five years ago, and he is playing tennis well.
He took a look; I'm not a candidate for a partial; I need a TKR and one ligament has to be released, which is what Dr. Kerina also had said. Bill and I both felt comfortable with him. He operates out of a hospital in Crystal River, Seven Rivers (see story). So now I have two doctors who we both feel good about. Now what?
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