please confirm pop question

Yep.  Right after I had my knee replacement, it occurred to me that if I am buried when I die, what will eventually be left is the bones and teeth, the staples in my pouch, my IVC filter, and my knee joint.... and I wondered if the knee joint would survive  the heat of cremation...

Lora

Yes, it will survive.  There was actually an article about a company recycling all the metal parts left from cremation.

I chose not to because of the acidity since I have had an ulcer. Same thing with coffee now.  I am fully healed and do not want to chance it.  Before the ulcer I did drink soda. I really don't miss it. 

I've read the pros and cons since my surgery 9/1/11 but because my instructions say to give it up to lose weight, I gave it up.  I've been carbonation free ever since and while there are times I really do want a diet coke there are more times that I have forgotten all about it.  It use to have control over me now I have the control on my side.  My advice is to ask you doctor why you shouldn't drink it.  

My surgeon didn't say anything about pop neither do or don't, one NUT said don't do drink diet pop cause of something about the "fake" sugar and my body still thinking its real sugar and producing insulin and it effecting the ketosis that I want my body to be in to loose the maximum amount of weight.  Then a different NUT she didn't see how a diet coke could hurt other than maybe giving me a belly ache and making me feel like I was going to explode due to the carbonation.  But my surgeon did say that the staples are stronger than my stomach and that I would it damage before the staples, but he was talking about over eating, not drinking.