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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Octavius on October 15, 2002, 05:57:20 PM
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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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Originally posted by Octavius
wish me luck!
OK, break a leg! :p
Lonz
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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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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 +)
SKurj
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Rest in peace.
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good luck man!!!
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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