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The Low-Down on Low Estrogen Levels and Inflammation

The Low-Down on Low Estrogen Levels and Inflammation

Suzie Andrade
When your body has too little estrogen, it can lead to an increase in inflammation. This happens because without enough estrogen, your body is unable to produce enough of the hormone cortisol, which helps keep inflammation in check. 
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The Best Ways To PREHAB TKR

The Best Ways To PREHAB TKR

Suzie Andrade
I didn’t know this was a thing until I did an Instagram search. Listed below are the top benefits I found to doing prehab…
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The Ultimate Decision: Knee Replacement

The Ultimate Decision: Knee Replacement

Suzie Andrade Knee, Knee pain, TKR, Total Knee Replacement
As I watched my future husband walk down the embankment, with my Mom, toward the water, I made up my mind. It was time.  Come, hell or high water, I would get this knee of mine fixed!
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20 years in the Making....The Beginning!

20 years in the Making....The Beginning!

Suzie Andrade
It started at  a work event (I second guessed going), but decided, what the heck at the last minute. We had a great time and the one thing that has stuck with us all these years started that night: dancing.
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Pick Your Wedding Date Using 3 Brilliant Steps!

Pick Your Wedding Date Using 3 Brilliant Steps!

Suzie Andrade
As I recall, we went through a 3-step process to pick our date. I really didn’t plan it that way, but that is how it worked out…in hindsight. The three steps were: day, month and year. Seems simple, right?
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Welcome to the blog!

I’m Suzie Andrade, your Knee Replacement Coach. Two knee replacements before 50 taught me this recovery is just as mental as it is physical.

This is where we have real talk about prep, post-op and the “is this normal?” moments nobody warned you about. Practical tools, honest perspective and faith woven in so you can walk into surgery and recovery with calm confidence.

If you’re exploring surgery or already icing your knee on the couch, you’re in the right place. You’re not behind, you’re not crazy and you’re definitely not doing this alone. I've got you. - Suzie

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Meet Suzie Andrade

 
I was 41 when I was told I needed a knee replacement.
And that my other knee would likely follow.

That sentence alone changed how I moved through the world.

I stopped playing softball.
I stopped walking just to "walk".
I avoided stairs. Curbs. Parking far away for extra steps.
Even the small, normal things started to feel like obstacles.

One day, I was on the beach, walking through the sand and muttering under my breath with every painful step. I wanted to walk down to the water, but it felt too far. That was the day I drew a very real line in the sand and decided I couldn’t keep living this way.

I had my left knee replaced at 45, my right hip at 46 and my right knee at 48.

What I didn’t know then was that pain would shape my purpose.

Each surgery taught me more than how to heal a body. It taught me resilience, patience and how much faith we carry when we’re forced to slow down and keep going. It also showed me this: there are real gaps in the knee replacement "adventure".

Doctors and physical therapists do important work, but they don’t talk about everything — the fear, the frustration, the days when healing feels invisible. Not because they don’t care. Because they haven’t lived it. I have.

That’s why I created the Yetter Getter Mindset and why I show up as your Holistic Knee Replacement Coach — to fill in the spaces that get skipped so recovery feels doable, supported and human.

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