This surgeon doesn't seem to want to do much except operate on the other leg. Very disappointed in him and will be having the other leg done by someone else after this one starts acting and feeling normal. I asked for the shots of spar so that the other knee would perform while this one was healing and he tried to talk me out of it. I told him that I needed to be able to walk to heal. I now feel that he wanted to get at that other knee asap.

For the first surgery in Jan., I was all prepped and under when my husband was notified that they were going to have to keep me in "twilight sleep" as allegedly the instrument bag had a hole in it and they were afraid of contamination and that would take about an hour. Hubby asked about instruments and was told they only had one set that had come from a large city near us. To me that seemed strange. Hubby is kicking himself that he didn't top the surgery right then and there. I came out of that one with my knee so far out of place that the leg did not line up staight.

As I commented to my husband the last visit. The office allows 10 minutes for the visit with me and that is all you get.

For the second operation 3-4 mths later, he put it this way. "I don't want to put you through all that again so I think "we" should do a TKR. Being in pain and hubby and I agreed. Now we know that was done so I could be billed again and it would not go into Medicare as a botched operation which they would not pay for again.