A decision

Morning walk passing the lake to the doctor. We talked about stronger pain killers for my knees and about surgery. Difficult to decide and in the end I asked him "what would you do in my place, you have the same age and actually the same diagnosis, so?" He changed his opinion from last time and today he could motivate me to say yes. So he sent away the application to the hospital.
I went to work and started to plan for me being away some month or so. It has never happened during my 36 years in the company, so no wonder I beleive the whole company will break down with me not being there :)