I need this surgery to save my life. Only 51 and my knees are bone on bone. I have a blood disorder that causes clots. Being over weight adds the odds, for another clot and P.E. I take way to much meds, which I know losing weight will be gone. I want to live the rest of my life, without Dr. and just people looking at me. I feel this is the beginning of my second half of my life. Always being over weight, I'm looking forward to the changes. I even had to move off My loved Mt. Big Bear Lake, Ca. after the P.E, because I had to sleep with o2. So my husband and myself are living in East Texas and really don't know anybody. I would love to meet some people like me.