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@cschultz8

I had TKR scheduled for 3/24 and was 8 days away when I was called to postpone it. I should have been 4 weeks past surgery now and starting to live again. Thankfully I'm not in pain just limping a little and they say I am bone on bone. Now I fear my summer will be spent doing therapy instead of planning a vacation. I am very depressed about this. I am still very active and plan to be active again as soon as possible. Staying home with this virus has got the best of me. I cry a lot.

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@cschultz8 I'm sorry to hear that your TKR had to be postponed. I actually had to postpone one also, way back in 2015. My platelets were too low for elective surgery. I didn't finally have the TKR until October 2017, at which point I was actually hurting less because I had strengthened the supporting muscles through a lot of exercise.
If your pain is not too bad then perhaps you can delay the surgery until early fall. If you had it then you would be better before the holidays. I don't know what type of vacation you had planned but I doubt that many will be flying yet or going places that require transportation other than their car.
Staying home and self-isolating does get the best of many of us. Most days I am OK, but there are days when it does get me very down. I have an adult son and daughter who both live out of state and I miss them both terribly. My son is far away so we don't know when we will be able to be together again because neither he nor us is ready to think about air travel. My daughter is about a five or six hour car drive away. I got to thinking about that this morning and it did put me in a sad mood for a while, but I try to stay busy with other things to take my mind off of it.
I am also finding having my groceries delivered is not something I enjoy.
We will get through this, but it cannot be rushed. As Dr. Fauci has said, the virus determines the timetable. If people rush it too much it will rebound.
There is another group where people are talking about coronavirus. Perhaps you would be interested in joining some of those discussions, there are many topics within the group.
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/covid-19/
JK