TKR minus 17 days

Rather than jumping off the deep end as I did after my first doctor's appointment, I waited three days for it all to sink in, while both Bill and I continued to talk to people about their experiences with doctors. It's amazing the things you can find out from networking; doors are opened that you didn't even know existed, and the list of questions to ask becomes longer, just by drawing from other people's experiences.

For instance, Bill went to the Driver's License Office to renew his license (an interesting procedure when you are 81, but that's another story.) While he was there he mentioned to the lady helping him that his wife was having a knee operation. As it happens, she managed a PT facility in The Villages for ten years, and has brought her mother and her sister to the doctor we have decided to use, Dr. Kerina, for several surgeries. She has known him through her job for many years and thinks highly of him as a person and as a physician/surgeon.

So, the surgery is November 8, 2010 at Leesburg Regional Medical Center, and Dr. Jeffrey Kerina will perform the operation. He is the first surgeon we visited, but I feel better having taken the step back and visited at least one other doctor. We feel good about this decision, and now that the decision is made, I'm anxious to get it done.