Friday, January 30, 2009

Knee Surgery

Well after a fall from my horse two weeks after getting her. Saddle difficulties, a tip always buy a new saddle. Anyways, after 3 months of rehab to build up the muscles again I finally had knee surgery to replace my ACL (one of the four ligaments in a knee). He did some clean up on my cartilage on the knee cap and some other minor thing than went for the gusto and took out my old ACL and replaced it with a cadavar Achilles tendon and a bone piece from the heel. I know it sound weired but using my own patella tendon was not an option for me wayyyy to much recovery time for that. The Dr said 2 week off the leg with only partial weight bearing with a brace and crutches. Well needless to say I could handle only 3 days of the brace and only about a week of the crutches. So today I went to Scotts Valley and only used the crutches a bit and even drove. I get to see the Dr on tuesday so I will see how things are going.

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