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Joan McGuire @joanmcguire.bsky.social

Knee Update: Had a rollicking good time with my surgeon’s PA who thinks I maybe didn’t need to come in, but we had fun. Here are my X-rays, I feel very confident that should I get to kick a Nazi, I can make it count.

Pre op X-rays, bone on bone, riddled with arthritis and yes, my left leg is bigger than my right, it’s my ankle’s fault. Post op, lots of metal and invisible plastic. You can see some of the hardware in my right ankle, but I cropped out most of the foot. Sorry foot guys. My kneecap was so wrecked that they took it out and gave it a new plastic interior surface. Bending view with the spikes into my tibia, the caps on my femur and patella.
sep 2, 2025, 4:58 pm • 9 0

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Joan McGuire @joanmcguire.bsky.social

I’m to expect sleep to improve over the next week, just let it happen. I am to walk as much as possible and unassisted but also she signed for my parking permit for events. I can also expect the right knee in 6 weeks to be a little easier as nothing will surprise me. I can ditch the compression

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Joan McGuire @joanmcguire.bsky.social

socks and submerge/use lotion in a week. I am to walk as much as possible, starting tomorrow on a flat footpath and increasing my range each day.

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Joan McGuire @joanmcguire.bsky.social

This will help with sleep as it’s tied to calories burned from activity and not calories burned from healing. Interesting! She also said that it is shocking to her that the “Cancer Lady with no spleen” is the superstar, but we’d never met before.

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Joan McGuire @joanmcguire.bsky.social

I’m flexing to 126 degrees today, a record for a non athlete and over age 50.

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Sic Semper Terrence @sluglife.bsky.social

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Joan McGuire @joanmcguire.bsky.social

Imma get my X-ray printed on a shirt with the words “Try Me!”

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Tim Walker @twalk.bsky.social

So *basically* you’re Wolverine now? 🙂

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