I'm so sorry you had to go through this. In this family, it was like a greed thing. Insurance paid tens of thousands so it was like their attitude was, "Wow, free joints! I'll take six!" I've been lucky. I'm pretty much head to toe with arthritis but physical therapy a few times has helped a lot for most things. The other amazing thing to me is all of them were pretty obese, yet I've been told doctors are supposed to get patients to lose weight before doing these surgeries. Otherwise they are bound to get blown out quickly. Not one of them was given that advice.
That debt is horrible! The ones I'm talking about paid virtually nothing. Two were teachers and had insurance most of us only dream of. Another was a federal employee, you can imagine his insurance. I was very lucky to have an outstanding therapist my last round who not only helped with the arthritis in my back but also my hip and, in his spare time, called my doctor and chewed her out for giving me statins that were causing horrible muscle cramps. If I stay on top of doing my exercises he showed me, I'm not pain free but getting there.
I'm so sorry you had to go through this. In this family, it was like a greed thing. Insurance paid tens of thousands so it was like their attitude was, "Wow, free joints! I'll take six!" I've been lucky. I'm pretty much head to toe with arthritis but physical therapy a few times has helped a lot for most things. The other amazing thing to me is all of them were pretty obese, yet I've been told doctors are supposed to get patients to lose weight before doing these surgeries. Otherwise they are bound to get blown out quickly. Not one of them was given that advice.
That debt is horrible! The ones I'm talking about paid virtually nothing. Two were teachers and had insurance most of us only dream of. Another was a federal employee, you can imagine his insurance. I was very lucky to have an outstanding therapist my last round who not only helped with the arthritis in my back but also my hip and, in his spare time, called my doctor and chewed her out for giving me statins that were causing horrible muscle cramps. If I stay on top of doing my exercises he showed me, I'm not pain free but getting there.