Bionic Muggsy

[Armybrat]

Hey, maybe you oughta get some optional equipment to go with it - if your Obamacare will cough up another $150K:

[Bawanna]

Kind of a cool novelty and something to play with but I don't see the point. I'll run circles around him in a chair, do anything that needs to be done, many of which I couldn't do in that set up.
Most things he'd have to go back to the chair anyhow. In and out of a car, bathroom visits, on and on.

Great concept and again would be fun for play but not practical.

I guess it would be cool to be able to wear cowboy gun belts and stuff again, I think I miss that the most of all.

[ltxi]

I know people who have had both knee and hip surgery. The hip is a far less complicated joint. It's far less painful to rehab and takes far less time to recover from. With a nerve block post surgical pain is practically non existent. Go for it.

Same as my observation of the several folk I know close up who have had one or the other...it ran rather counter intuitive until I really thought it through. I've been more than just fortunate wrt knees....never been easy on mine at all and one damaged pretty bad in a ski accident back in the late '70s eventually healed and amazingly has never given a bit of trouble in old age. Hope my luck continues to hold....to me, knee replacement recovery and rehab is something to be dreaded.

Soldier forth and do/be well...thinking' about you.

[muggsy]

They say once you do one, you'll never do another, you've demonstrated to be exceptional. Good luck.
Lemme know if you need any medical equipment I have friends in the greater Cleveland area.

Thanks, downtownv. I'm well supplied with medical equipment including a set of wooden crutches dating back to 1972 when I blew out my first knee. I thrive on pain. Occasionally, I'll smash my thumb with a hammer just to see if that sort of thing still hurts. Thanks for the kind offer.

[muggsy]

Kind of a cool novelty and something to play with but I don't see the point. I'll run circles around him in a chair, do anything that needs to be done, many of which I couldn't do in that set up.
Most things he'd have to go back to the chair anyhow. In and out of a car, bathroom visits, on and on.

Great concept and again would be fun for play but not practical.

I guess it would be cool to be able to wear cowboy gun belts and stuff again, I think I miss that the most of all.

Knowing you somehow you'd manage to fall over and just keep going around in circles.

[muggsy]

Rehabbing a knee isn't that bad. Once I forgot to put it away before I zipped up! You can bet I'll never do that again.

[Bawanna]

Knowing you somehow you'd manage to fall over and just keep going around in circles.

Yup, more than once I buried me power chair out by the wood pile. Had to call the missus to come winch me out. Once I didn't have my phone with me so I discharged the Cbob, she showed up much faster that time. Guess she was over anxious to see if she could plan her grieving trip to the Bahamas following my demise.
I tried to relieve her disappointment by telling her I just missed but I think she was still disappointed.

[TheTman]

Good Luck Muggs, best wishes for a quick recovery.

Colonel, that was a first generation exoskeleton, say like a Model A Ford, I imagine in a few years, they will have that technology much smaller, and more efficient to the point it might actually make sense, say more like a Ferrari or Porsche compared with a Model A. They will probably have them shrunk down to fit under your pants.
Heck, they may be able to do it with implants and thought driven controllers, and no one would even know it was there. Technology is advancing at lightning pace these days, and cutting edge technology is old news in year or less. Take the 3d Printers, a very sizeable investment a couple years ago, now you can own one for around $1K. In a fairly short time they will probably be half that price.

[Bawanna]

You had me right up until though driven controllers. I got nothing to work with..........

Your of course right on all counts. Technology is improving in leaps and bounds and it's all good.

Often thought what I'd do if they came out with a pill you took and tomorrow you'd be normal and could walk.
The only consistent answer I always have is I wouldn't be doing much sitting around, I'll tell ya that.

I'd probably walk ocean to ocean several times, focusing on the mountains. Kind of miss that.

[Armybrat]

Well, sometime you ought to get back down to Lake Tahoe, then drive up Mount Rose to the Tahoe Meadows Loop Trail - 1.2 miles around the loop, wheelchair accessible. They even have an indoor crapper building at the "trailhead". The wife & I walked it about 10 years ago in August and really enjoyed the views & the Alpine setting of the meadow:

https://tahoerimtrail.org/index.php?...174&Itemid=207

Don't get it mixed up with the 23 mile trail that loops the Mt. Rose summit. lol

Being a resident of Central Texas, that was like walkin' on another planet to me.... just beautiful & so quiet with no tourists anywhere close by.