Thanks! That will be great.  I'm actually trying to help out my
grandfather as he's getting frustrated in feeling like he's having to
go through all of this by himself, and exploring new territory alone.
I hope you are able to find your journal. I'm sure my grandfather will
appreciate having something like that to read.

Thanks for the advice (and disclaimers ;-)  I realize each person is
different and so are the procedures, but sometimes it helps to just
have someone to talk to about what problems they had and how they are
coping with it.  Doctors and nurses haven't always gone through the
procedures they advise about and are unable to truly empathize with
their patients.  It's like someone losing weight...if you were
overweight and were being advised by someone who never before was over
weight, wouldn't you feel like that person really couldn't relate to
everything you were going through? I certainly would.  I'd rather have
someone to talk to who could honestly understand the emotional side of
things as well as the techinical side - that's where I would seek out a
support group.  It seems there are hundreds of support groups out there
for everything from childbirth and alcoholics to road rage.  I'm just
trying to find the support group for knee replacement and it seems
there's a huge deficiency in this particular category.

In light of these recent posts, it seems I might need to just start
gathering the little snippets of experience people are willing to share
on various sites, and then compile those somewhere as a collection.
I'm pretty sure there aren't any such comprehensive websites out there
- but there are some that are fairly good.

Thanks again for taking the time to give me some feedback.