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6 days!! How exciting! Congrats and good luck. I'll be thinking about you and sending you good thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery.

32 pounds in 17 days! wow!! I can't wait to start watching myself melt away.

Thanks. yeah, I might have to. I really didn't realize how much of the pain I could mask with only advil alone. I may give them a call this next week and ask what I should do until i lose some weight. But you give me some hope by telling me it helped you. If needed I may go to an ortho doc, I know they can administer injections (not sure if nsaid/blood thinning) Thanks again for your responses.

Your story is so inspiring! I have bad knees too and have avoided going to the doc to find out the same results and I too have a dream to finish a sprint triathalon. However, I was once a swimmer as well back in the day...way back in the day. Look in your community, they hold swimming events mostly competative, fund raising, and or endurance. So find a long and short term goal. Instead of running the marathon plan on being on the Masters team which is an adult swim team that competes and ages range from 20-80+. I know the issue is getting out in front of others in a bathing suit and I totally get that. But maybe seeing a goal down the road that is similar to the one of the marathon it can give you that same motivation again. I think, not positive, but in the past when I have looked up information about triathalons (dreaming of the day) that they do hold some team triathalons where each member does one of the three lengths of the race (starts with swimming, then biking, and last running) That could be an option for you and your brother to do together. Plus you would be amazed at how much better your knees feel after doing the same hard work without the impact in water. Don't give up, you are my inspiration, and I just started this journey.

Hi Jen11, it sounds like you just had the procedure recently. How is everything going for you? I started my first blog last night and I am just starting this journey. I am also paying out of pocket, so it was a big deal in so many ways to go through with this. I can't wait!

Thanks rebecka! I appreciate your support. So wonderful feeling a sense of hope again.

"Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself... Nothing is impossible!"

~ Norman Vincent Peale