Tony Titcomb never had an office job. I worked with my hands most of my life, he says, primarily in steel fabrication. And when he wasn t shaping steel, he d be outdoors, hunting and fishing.
In 2013, he retired, with plans to travel, go to the movies and above all fly fish in his home state of Utah and Montana. He d just had his right knee replaced after it had gotten real bad. But seven years later, in late 2019, it was his left knee that started hurting.
The then-68-year-old went to see Christopher Pelt, MD, an orthopedic surgeon specializing in joint replacement surgery, at the University Orthopaedic Center. Pelt told him he needed surgery if he wanted to keep walking.