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Sorry to hear your news. Have you contacted BLESMA? Easily the best source of advice you could find on this anywhere.

Good luck and maybe see you on their ski trip next year!

Just don't go downhill and end up in a life of crime...

Not The Nine O'Clock News- Shoe Theft Sketch - YouTube

Fucking shedloads on here some should be along shortly but most had little choice or awareness of what was happening so you are in a fairly unusaul position (not one I envy). Good luck.
Oh should you decide to go down the pain management routine, my ex Coy Clerk did that and is still in bits 20 years later and had a stroke as well!

Bad luck exblackrat. As gearspotter said Blesma are your best friends here. They can provide all the information on your options, give advice on special equipment you may need, get discounts on variouse bits and pieces and they might even be able to put you in touch with someone who will go halfs on a pair of shoes with you.
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That's a bit careless.

I can understand you losing your keys and purse, but your leg?

Where did you see it last?

Sorry - I have garden rage. Hope everything goes OK. Dingerr and K13 will no doubt be along shortly to give you advice.

Worked with a fella who had a false leg. I didnt even know for a few weeks. It was quite heavy work but he just gets on with it. That was a below the knee though.

we've had this family conversation over the past few years when a cousin had his leg chewed up in a non vehicle accident. while he ended up keeping the leg it was stitched and switched about so much he reckons it would have been better to have it removed. a lot of injured troops are opting for amputation because they feel they can get back in the game quicker without having the issues of a ruined lower leg for the rest of their lives. probably a harder choice for the loved ones to come to turn with.

when they have the option of amputate how they want then they can do a pretty good job of it and embed a peg in the stump so you dont need as much reliance on a cup which causes the most irritation. knee replacements are something we dont seem to be very good at over here with a high failure rate, mind you your athritis wont help.

They are tinkering around the edges of athritis according to the news and it may be they come up with a way of slowing down the degeneration in the next few years by switching off the attack command so a newer knee might work. her mother had hers done 2 years ago now and its still not right (as they put a mans joint in instead of a womans, her being a heffer) but I guess you are familiar with the process.

if you keep your own leg then you will ultimately have better movement and control but probably more pain so you cant really win, without it then potentially you will be more mobile for longer and be back in action quicker but both options will end up with you and at least a walking stick.

her ex boss had a freaky football accident involving a wall which basically traumatically amputated his foot mid calf removing 3 inches of bone from the tib and fib, he wanted to have it removed but the medics opted to tinker with it so you might not even get the choice as doctors are funny like that.

difficult decision. I work in a geriatric hospital/rehab and we get amputees (mostly smokers) now and again. Above knee amputations are dificult because you have to learn to walk with a mechanical knee joint but with good physio a resonable gait is possible. My opinion: get it done now while you are fit enough to endure the op and the hard physio afterwards. Good luck.