The Surgery

Well, the knee surgery was successful! It was better than we hoped, and also a little worse than we hoped. The nice thing is that it is a permanent fix. I won't have to go in to have them "repaired" again in several years, like we originally thought. The hard part is the recovery has been much more painful and harder than what was originally expected. I went in after years and years of pain in my legs. Thinking the problem was from playing tennis most of my life, the doctor decided to do a scope on both knees to clean up some cartilidge problems (which he thought was most likely the problem). When they got in with the camera, they found that I had some tissue that needed to be removed. Oddly enough, the tissue had never completely severed when I was a fetus. So, I had these two big peices of tissue attached to my knee caps, with nerve endings and the whole nine yards. So, because these never severed completely, they were what was causing so much pain my whole life. So, they shaved those off...which is making the recovery so much harder. I am SO glad I did it. Knowing that I won't have the nightly leg aches, and that I can actually go for a run without wanting to cry from the pain is the best feeling. In the meantime, I am hobbling around the best I can. It is giving wonderful entertainment to Anton!