T i m ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying :

My father had a _pair_ of new knees simultaneously about 18 months
ago.

He was brave.

In choosing both-at-once over one-heal-other? His reasoning was that he
only wanted to give 'em one chance to give him MRSA...

I strongly suspect the fact he had both done, and therefore couldn't "go
easy" on the done one helped a lot.

I guess it must .. no choice etc? ;-)

Indeed. Want a cuppa? No limping and going heavy on the stick "just this
once"...

I believe she's doing all the right stuff but the bit that seems to
have her worried / upset / frustrated is she can't properly 'feel' her
foot from the instep to the heel. She can feel it as such but it's
just quite numb and she get's an uncomfortable sensation when trying
to walk 'normally' (heel toe etc).

Of course it's all still early days and a pretty major op but she
compares herself with the other patients having the same op at the
same time and apparently they weren't suffering the same lack of
feeling in the foot ..?

I don't remember Dad muttering about that. Muttering about damn near
everything else, yes, but not specifically that.