Dr. David Fischer

But I think

I think sometimes you feel like, well, it's going to get better.

Maybe somehow things are going to get better.

But what you mentioned is often the key.

And when people start having pain at night and they start losing sleep and it starts interfering with their whole life, I mean, they're fatigued the next day.

A lot of times that's the last straw.

That brings people into the office and they say, well, you know, the aspirin or the Tylenol or the ibuprofen, it's not helping anymore.

And I just generally feel awful and my knees killing me.

Well, it's the unknown, too, in that whether it's a medical condition or a social condition, sometimes you could be in a bad situation

but you know what it's going to be like.

And the unknown is more of a detriment to making a decision at that point.

And I think it's scary when you think about going into surgery and maybe under an anesthetic where you lose total control.

Your life is in somebody else's hands completely.

And everybody knows somebody that's done really, really well

you know, from church or something, you know, they tell you, well, I had this operation done and I was playing tennis in two weeks.

Well, that's a lie, you know, but, but, but they weren't playing very well.

No, that's what their memory does to them.

But then, you know, if you go into rehab and I'm sure Stan has seen this, you go into talk to you and you see a rehab, you see some people don't do very well and they struggle.

And, and, and so the expectations are, you know, we can't say this is what's going to happen a hundred percent of the time.

Yeah.