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Offline Octavius

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surgery tomorrow
« on: October 15, 2002, 05:57:20 PM »
Going under the knife tomorrow for knee reconstruction (ACL).  Yay me!  

Nothing to scope out, the MRI showed no loose cartilage floating around.  My doctor said I'm a "good" case given the situation.  I opted to have an autograft instead of an allograft.  Autograft is a longer recovery but stronger than an allograft.  In the long run I think it'd be a better choice.

Never had surgery on anything before, but I'm not nervous.  I remember seeing a story on Dateline about patients "waking up" mid-surgery still paralyzed but able to feel the knife cutting.  :eek:

wish me luck!
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Re: surgery tomorrow
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2002, 06:24:06 PM »
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wish me luck!


OK, break a leg!  :p

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Offline cobra427

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« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2002, 07:34:29 PM »
there is nutt'n to it im 16 and ive been through at least 12 :) i had club feet when i was born (my feet bent up against my legs at the joint)

i dont know what you are gonna go through but the only painfull things i went through was  the IV (i hate needles) and when i had a 3 inch spike in my heel to keep a bone in place ...they had to pull it out without nutt'n to kill the pain ...there was 1 more thing but it was just a button tied to a string that was tied to a bone in my leg :) but other than that it was fine

in the end the lil bit of pain was worth it when the pulled the spike one of the nurses fainted

have fun :p
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Offline SKurj

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surgery tomorrow
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2002, 08:10:49 PM »
hey!!! ....  

One of my bosses talked about having knee surgery... but i think it was knee replacement ... he was saying he wouldn't be able to move around much on it for somethin like 3-6 months!!!

Well good luck! and enjoy whatever timeoff you do get +)


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surgery tomorrow
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2002, 08:16:12 PM »
Rest in peace.
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Offline Udie

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surgery tomorrow
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2002, 08:16:29 PM »
good luck man!!!
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Offline pimpjoe

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surgery tomorrow
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2002, 08:23:55 PM »
ick...my step dad has had 2 knee surgery's. dont mean to keel your hopes...but he was laid up for about 6 weeks the first time and 8 the second. his was knee replacements tho.

good luck!:D
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