Knee Replacement

As I begin this column, it is Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 22. I have been alive 20,873 days, if my math is correct, and I hope to add to the tally. But the knees I was born with will not be joining me for the rest of the trip. The clock ticks. The surgeon...

Andrew Fabella, are you out there? Please report to post-op at Keck Hospital of USC early Monday morning. I'm coming back to have the other knee done. That's right, folks, I'm kicking off the new year by getting a partial right knee replacement...

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Harvey Brin, 78, had double knee replacement surgery on May 17, 2011. Seven months later, he was skiing black diamonds in Steamboat Springs, Colo. “Before …...

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma is slowly getting back up to speed following emergency surgery on his knee. Bosma said Thursday that his doctor removed 30 staples from his knee the previous evening during a "house call" at...