July 10, 2006

Just got back from having surgery on my knee. Wow. How cool was it that I stayed awake and the Doctor talked me through everything he was doing. I had an arthroscopy on a previously surgically repaired ACL and you wouldn't believe the amount of scar tissue he had to remove. He also cleaned out all the damaged cartilage, of which there was plenty and then, poof, 20 minutes later I was done, though it took about another hour for the spinal block to wear off. Now I am home, with ice on my right knee and resting my laptop on my other. I have already been walking on the leg (no crutches) and so far don't have any pain. The only real bummer is that diagnostically it looks like I will need a new knee in 10 years or so, because of the arthritis that is already significant. But between now and then we should be able to control the arthritic pain with injections.