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...He instructs practicing Orthopaedic Surgeons in the performance of minimally invasive joint replacement and is a Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery...

...Rest is critical to recovering from the trauma caused by surgery. This can be challenging for type A personalities like myself....

...And even those of us who must cope with chronic pain and illness frequently can find ourselves being critical of others who might need our compassion....

...The VA medical center where I get my care offers them to all vets, and they keep them handy in all the clinics for their patients....

...When my husband watches me make three trips up and down the stairs to carry the laundry and forgets how bad my knees will ache afterward, I get frustrated...

...We are planning some fun trips, family visits, and other activities that we enjoy....

...While up, I then usually take one of several nightly trips to the bathroom (now that I am post-menopausal, they are even more common) which means that...

...For example, my husband will tell you that I love planning trips and visits or dinners....

...Make two trips instead of one long one.  All of these will make shopping a much more manageable experience....

...I picked a name out of the list of doctors at the same clinic as my rheumatologist and made my appointment....

...According to the Mayo Clinic, osteoporosis “causes bones to become brittle and weak” because “the formation of new bone does not keep up with the loss...

...This lamp has been a critical part of my functional office décor. There is still much more that needs to be accomplished....

...Which easily fed into the third: every person who talked about their fun weekend plans or outdoors trips right in front of me and never invited me....

...After all, all the shows and movies people see tell us that even if you have open heart surgery with triple bypass and valve replacement, you will be sitting...

...I had become one of those baffling “chronic pain” patients in a practice that no longer treats “pain,” even though it’s one of the main symptoms of rheumatoid...

...And now I had left Boston and was in New York, navigating packed subway trains and streets and not knowing what the heck I was doing for the most...

...Noticeably absent this weekend were: medical clinics, waiting rooms, exam rooms, prescription lists, pain scales, infusion centers, doctors, nurses, sick...

...I tell them I have used a motorized wheelchair for decades and that it has helped me to live my life, work full-time, and take splendid trips....

...A small amount of adjusting and tucking the tails into my bottoms and nobody would ever know your dressy button-up is not, in fact, buttoned up!...