After having knee problems suddenly appear in January of 2007, today, I finally got a prognosis. I need surgery on both of my knees to fix a movement defect. Basically, both of my knee caps are tilted towards the outside of my knee, causing the problems I have running, walking, standing, etc. To fix the issue, the Doctor is going to cut the tissue that attaches my knee caps to my femur so that my knee cap will be free to move the right way. It is an arthroscopic procedure with a fairly quick (2-4 month) recovery. I can only do one knee at a time, so I'll do my left this summer sometime and then my right sometime after the first surgery.
Believe it or not, I'm excited. It has been such a pain (literally) dealing with my knees for the past 16 months. Having a straight-forward, relatively simple solution to the problem is such a relief.
4 comments:
so great that this thing will be resolved for you!!!!
That's great - not the surgery part but the you being (hopefully) pain free part...
Whoa- first I've heard of the surgery. Hope it is successful! I'm assuming you'll wait until after vacation for it??! We can't have the chef incapacitated!
HA- yes. I scheduled the first one which will be on my left Knee for September 15.
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