Second Knee, Second Chance: Knee Revision Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe knee revision surgery, the second or even third operation on a replaced knee. Writers came to it after loosening, wear, infection, a fall in the kitchen that broke the bone, a kneecap that never felt right, stiffness from scar tissue, a half knee that needed converting, and pain that perfect X-rays could not explain. They include a sheep farmer outside Cork, a long-haul trucker, a hairdresser renting her own chair, a welder who could no longer kneel, a drummer, a taxi driver with no sick pay, a night office cleaner, a man with haemophilia, a carer whose husband has Parkinson's, and a retired seamstress of eighty-eight, writing from Durban to Detroit and St Ives to Sarasota. Treatments include months with a cement spacer, a one-stage operation for infection, a washout, a hinged knee, a flap over a wound that would not close, and losing weight before surgery was offered. Writers describe insurance fights, long waits for a date, a veterans system, a church that helped pay, a nerve pain no scan could find, and a notebook kept from the first day home. Not every ending is tidy: a clot ten days after surgery, low weeks of depression, a knee that stays sore, and one woman who said no to a third operation.

Who it's for

For anyone told their knee replacement needs redoing, for those waiting for a date or living with a knee that still hurts, and for the families and friends helping them home.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 231 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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