Jane Shew, 81

“Old Jane can get up and go now,” says Jane Shew, 81, with a laugh that warms the room with its vibrancy. The remarkable thing is that just one year ago she was a patient at Celebration Health’s Expedition: Joint Replacement Center, undergoing a bilateral knee replacement. She had reached the point where walking even a short distance as incredibly painful and almost impossible. Today, Shew walks at least one mile every day in her neighborhood and often exercises at her local Curves or the YMCA Silver Sneakers Program. You wouldn’t know that only one year has passed since she found herself without a leg to stand on, literally, and decided to undergo knee replacement surgery on both knees at the same time. “You’ve got to have faith in your doctor and in somebody higher,” Shew says from the Orlando home that she shares with her husband, Fred, 81, reflecting on her decision to replace both knees at once. “I knew I was in good health and I knew that I was a determined person, and I just decided that I could do this!”