It's my birthday 🎂, bitches!

[raecoffey]

Hey guys, since it's my birthday , and I am turning 44 today, I just wanted to enquire about when the rest of your birthdays were?

[Tdarcos]

Happy birthday, Rae! Hope things get better for you

For 44, I have to go back to late 2004. I had already been declared disabled, but I could still walk - with a cane - but if I had known that the excessive left knee wear caused me to put extra load on the right knee, leading to wearing out both knees. I would have gone to using a wheelchair propylactically to prevent further damage, and to ensure I could still get up and walk on occasion if necesary.

That was one of the few times I can look back to a specific timeframe, and say definitely "yeah, that was a time definitely fucked up, badly."

By the eay, the use of that word is correct under the citcumdtsnces: it means to so sometjing not strictlu neceddary but as a preventatve measure. Has nothing to do with contraception.

[raecoffey]

Yeah, I know about knees. One is bone on bone, the other has bone spurs, water on the knee and ossification of the distal tendons.

Why don't you get the replacement?
I can't because I can not take general anaethsesia without going into respiratory failure, which carra 50% chance of fatality.

[raecoffey]

I'm actually in the wheelchair because

Knees
Osteoarthritis of the feet and ankles
Loss of cartilage between the toe joints
Myofascial pain syndrome of the legs
SLE Lupus
Fibromyalgia
Bone pain
Weakness
Pain in my bones
Osteopenea

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Happy birthday!

[AArdvark]

Happy birthday

[raecoffey]

Thanks guys!

[Molly Muffsweet]

Happy Birthday.



Only the Sweetest,

Molly Muffsweet.

[bryanb]

Happy symmetrical birthday, Rae!

[Jizaboz]

Aye

[Tdarcos]

I'm actually in the wheelchair

Manial or automatic?

I've had both. A wheelchair is the only time where you start with a manual and move tto an automatic with a srick.

[raecoffey]

Automatic