Thank you everybody, all those good prayers are appreciated and so is the advice. It's encouraging to hear how well things went for other people 
I will do what they tell me as much as I can. Billy treats me like a princess, I'm not used to it but that's another story. I want very much to be taking better care of him because he still has plenty of pain of his own and I don't like it any better than my own, actually I like it a whole lot less than my own, his pain makes me cry, my own doesn't. He has less than he did, but still plenty. Both of us need to have more fun.
This bad knee just keeps me from doing so much it drives me nuts. I haven't been able to walk on it since late August and I'm tired of crutches, tired of slowly making my way around and tired of hurting. I want to cook, do laundry, etc., without having to think about every step I take. This actually makes even beading somewhat harder because I don't always have the oomph to go get the pliers I left in the other room, or different beads, etc., and I haven't been able to clean up my stuff from NH as much as I want to so everything is still disorganized and not always easy to find. I just don't always have the energy for it or for much else either. Even for these forums, and I miss being on here the way I used to be.
I also need to get my South Carolina driver's licence and do some errands so that Billy doesn't have to do every one of them but there's not much point to doing that unless I can put a firm foot on the pedals and that's iffy now. Once I can drive the first thing that will happen is that Billy will never take the trash to the recycling center again, and I mean that. Why should he have to pick up that stuff with his bad back and heart? I get frustrated watching him do this, and more, and not being able to help. He's amazing, very sweet, good and strong.
I also want to do some transcription. I've been putting it off for various reasons, first because we needed more computer time which we now have, then because we weren't sure whether or not to put up my computer as well as this one, and now because I'd have to stop doing it for a little bit anyway after I get that new knee. So I haven't looked really hard for any. I'm pretty sure it would be easy enough to get from one of my old accounts. I could probably do some before and then pick it back up after but unless I start out looking for a significant amount of dictation to transcribe I'd be getting the dregs, the fussy notes from the PT department with all the numbers and symbols to type into tables, etc., and they take a lot of time and don't pay well. Those kind of things. Now Billy's working, which is good, but I think he works too hard. Maybe I should email my most likely contact for transcription anyway and just explain myself and see what happens. We could also use some good jewelry sales right now only I can't think of anything I actually can do that would make that happen. We do have two more shows coming up, the last weekend in October and then again at the end of November so maybe we'll earn some money then.
I kind of knew this knee replacement was coming. The diclofenac didn't work, it made my blood pressure go way up, then the depo-medrol injection didn't work either. So I did kind of figure out before last Friday that this is what they'd recommend. When I broke this the Dr told me that I'd get about ten years out of the ORIF (surgery to fix the fracture) and it's been eleven years now. All in all I'm really lucky, my knee was the only thing I hurt really bad in that accident. My face kissed the windshield but all that got was minor cuts and bruises and banged up some, and I sprained my right ankle (yup, same leg) but nothing worse. Whenever I feel yucky I think how it could have been my head or neck that got broken really bad and then where would I be now...not here with the love of my life, that's for sure. Also, a whole lot of years ago when I was in my 20's I had a year and a half of a really bad arthritis/autoimmune episode that kept me from walking or even moving much. I recovered from that with only a couple of episodes since then of somewhat more than mild pain for only a month, six weeks...otherwise just occasional mild pain here or there. I was lucky that wasn't worse and still am. So I have a lot of compassion for people in pain. When I'm doing well, which has been the majority of the time, I'm always grateful for it. I never, ever walk without gratitude.
Okay, thanks. I think I'll go email a transcription contact and see about some work. That might go better than I think and I'd like that. Thanks for listening and letting me talk (aka b*tch) 
Really thank you for the prayers too.
Pam
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery