| Anyone that has had to live in chronic pain due to | | | | things that seemed so out of reach due to a beaten |
| degenerative arthritis of either the hip, knee or | | | | down spirit can be brought back to life. The I cannot |
| shoulder understands what it does to you physically, | | | | do it attitude turns into I can and, I will! |
| emotionally and spiritually. The constant pain wears | | | | After you have gone through rehabilitation and get |
| you down until it has full control over your life and | | | | your freedom back, you begin to enjoy the hobbies |
| the pain dictates to you how you will live your life. | | | | and the simple things in life again that was taken |
| Letting pain run your life is not meant how we as | | | | from you due to pain and loss of mobility. Many of us |
| humans are to live. When you have had enough of | | | | live to long in chronic pain limbo. We get caught up in |
| the constant loss of personal freedom, you then | | | | the unknown and, the stories about what happened |
| somehow summon the courage to go ahead and | | | | to old so and so when they had their knee or hip |
| have the orthopedic surgeon complete the joint | | | | replaced. |
| replacement. | | | | Having total joint replacement surgery if needed |
| What happens after the surgery is over and done | | | | should be done as soon as you can. You lose a |
| with, generally the first words out of your mouth | | | | precious day in your life each day the decision is put |
| after the effects of the anesthesia as worn off is | | | | off. Once the surgery is done, with a healing and |
| why did I wait so long to have this done. What you | | | | rehabilitation time of roughly eight weeks, you can |
| begin to experience after several days is a new | | | | get back and to living the life you have dreamed of |
| freedom you have not had in either months and for | | | | having and, you begin to see that your future is not |
| some people years. When you get the joint replaced | | | | as bleak as it once appeared to be. |
| you begin to feel liberated, you no longer let chronic | | | | After surgery a new beginning, a new day has |
| pain run your life instead, you begin to envision a | | | | dawned and then you realize there is nothing that |
| brighter future for yourself. You realize that those | | | | can stop you now. |