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To: RR who wrote (62188)	7/10/2005 1:43:26 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Hey RR. I'm taking it day by day right now. The knee is about 75% of normal strength. Flexion is slightly better. The ankle is somewhat less for both. That is about where I should be. I have 2 weeks left of prescribed rehab, then I'm on my own for the most part. I'll renew my YMCA membership & continue to work out there. I'm going to a new location that has 2 pools. One of them is a warm pool which will be perfect for my rehab. I did get a bit of bad news about my back, ET AL. If you recall my first knee surgery a little over 2 years ago, I began to have back problems immediately after surgery. The constant pain never went away. Long story short, it seems I have had a problem for about 15 years that was aggravated (inflamed) during surgery. It's called diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH). Well, at least this is what they are pretty sure it is. TWT. The following paragraph pretty much sums it up. DISH (sometimes called Forestier’s disease) is considered a form of degenerative arthritis and is characterized by excessive bone growth along the sides of the vertebrae of the spine. It is also associated with inflammation and calcification (bone growth) at other areas of the body where tendons and ligaments attach to bone, such as at the elbow, knee and the heel of the foot. These can lead to bone spurs. Heel spurs, for example, are common among people with DISH. arthritis.ca I'm a little young to have fairly advanced DISH, but the X-rays, symptoms & other tests seem to show that's what it is. About 15 years ago I had neck problems that were diagnosed as degenerative disk disease, but they said that even then I had bone spurs. And I've had bone spurs in my feet for several years now too. C'est la vie... I gotta play the hand I'm dealt.