N.F.C. - The Last Two Weeks
Sportsmen's Empire - Whitetail Hunting
Sportsmen's Empire Outdoor Network
4.8 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Dan Johnson shares an honest and detailed account of his two-week recovery from knee replacement surgery, highlighting the physical and emotional challenges, the importance of patience, and the impact on his hunting plans.
Key Topics
- Knee replacement surgery experience
- Pain management and medication effects
- Physical therapy milestones and setbacks
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| 0:33.0 | All right, everybody. |
| 0:34.4 | It's been a minute since I've hopped on here and recorded. The last two weeks for myself have been fairly hectic, fairly numb, fairly medicated, constipated, frustrating, feeding, painful. There's more. There's more. But as of right now, we are on the |
| 0:58.8 | mend from a knee replacement surgery and I figured I'd just kind of hop on here real quick |
| 1:03.2 | and give everybody an update about what I'm going through some of the funny things that have |
| 1:08.2 | happened along the way and not so funny things that have happened along the way. And I just kind of give everybody an update of the last two |
| 1:15.4 | weeks of my life. And here's what I'm going to tell you, right off the bat. And that is, I knew |
| 1:22.6 | that there was going to be some pain and some recovery involved. I had a lot of people reach out to me and say, |
| 1:30.1 | hey, guy, you know, at your age, it shouldn't be too terribly bad. |
| 1:33.2 | You know, you're going to be able to recover faster just because of your age and, |
| 1:37.2 | you know, very positive uplifting comments. |
| 1:41.1 | And I appreciate that. |
| 1:42.8 | But the guy, there's a guy who reached out to me on |
| 1:48.0 | Instagram and he goes, dude, not going to sugarcoat it for you. The next two weeks of your life |
| 1:53.8 | are going to suck ass. And it's going to be painful. You're not going to sleep. And so I kind of |
| 2:00.3 | went into post this post-surgery. So like if you're |
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