You have my sympathy Terry, like you I am full of arthritis. I have had a new left knee and hip. The new hip was a great success but the knee not so great, after four years it is like a ballon but not giving me any pain. I now need the right knee doing but don't want the aggro. that I had with the left one so my doctor gave me a steroid injection a couple of weeks ago which didn't help at all.
My fingers and thumbs have gone on me know and give me quite a lot of pain. I cut my grass the other day and cut down a hedge but I didn't half feel it the next day. My missus makes me laugh when I struggle to get a lid off a jar or open a tin, she says "I don't know how old people go on opening these" , I am 79 and she is 74 this year.
