Howdy y'all! So as of late I've been AFK from the forums, for good reason.
Finally, after much bickering from myself, my doctor had decided to operate on my knee. As you all may/may not know, I had either PVNS/Lipoma Arboresence (benign tumour/growths) growing throughout my knee, and it was pretty severe. I'd had an arthroscopic clean out in Jan 08, which didn't see the end of my problems as it grew back. After realising it had grown back, more aggressively, my doctor decided to do a fully open knee operation to clean out my joint. They cut me open from the back of my knee, in a Z shape, and cleaned out from the back - actually removing some of the muscles from the bone to clean it out properly. Then they stitched everything back up, turned me over and cut my knee open down the front, cleaning it out from the front. Pretty extensive operation, took 5 hours roughly all together and managed to get a few photos while I was there.
me, completely out of it on morphine! good times, good times...
my leg in it's splint, bandages and compressor.
the cut along the back of my leg.
the other half of the cut.
the cut down the front of my knee.
my pee bottle!
Finally, after much bickering from myself, my doctor had decided to operate on my knee. As you all may/may not know, I had either PVNS/Lipoma Arboresence (benign tumour/growths) growing throughout my knee, and it was pretty severe. I'd had an arthroscopic clean out in Jan 08, which didn't see the end of my problems as it grew back. After realising it had grown back, more aggressively, my doctor decided to do a fully open knee operation to clean out my joint. They cut me open from the back of my knee, in a Z shape, and cleaned out from the back - actually removing some of the muscles from the bone to clean it out properly. Then they stitched everything back up, turned me over and cut my knee open down the front, cleaning it out from the front. Pretty extensive operation, took 5 hours roughly all together and managed to get a few photos while I was there.
me, completely out of it on morphine! good times, good times...
my leg in it's splint, bandages and compressor.
the cut along the back of my leg.
the other half of the cut.
the cut down the front of my knee.
my pee bottle!