Lucky and wise you where , my knee took a whole construction sticking out of my leg to only fix my exploded lower leg bone , 2010 that was , i would never run again and stuff , not taking a new knee would immobilize me they said . Now almost 10 year later , i can walk , and even run to get away from danger , just it hurts al the time and i walk with a limb when i am tired . Shame is that when i would have applied to al medical advice they would have accepted that i no longer fully function like it should , but be in a lot worse condition . As for now i do not take meds or let them operate makes them think nothing is wrong with him either . ,.. or did they just wanted to sell me a new fake knee and a whole lot of hard-drugs ? ;-)