I can't believe I'm saying this, but I am electing to have another knee surgery! After discussion with my ortho doc, I've decided to go ahead and have the hardware removed from my tibia that was placed there when they put my knee back together. While I'm under anesthesia, he's going to go ahead and scope my knee as well, just to see if there's anything else going on in there that's causing me pain. Unfortunately, my doctor has only given …
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Six Months After – Tibial Plateu Fracture
While walking through Target this morning, it struck me that we are now in MAY, and already the month is flying by, and that brought me to the stunning realization that it has been almost SIX MONTHS since my accident, when I fell down the stairs and broke my leg. Six months! I wish I could say that I am back to normal. Sadly, I am not. I am about a thousand miles from where I was at the beginning of the year, but I am still very gimpy and I …
Broken Leg Complication: Blood Clots!
Alternate title: how my teenager spent the worst Christmas of her life. So, I mentioned that my 17-year-old broke HER right leg, just a couple of weeks after I broke MY leg, and how it just added another level of fuckery to our already upside-down world. She broke the same bone that I did, although her fracture was just a vertical, hairline crack along the back of her leg. She was in tremendous pain, and spent almost two weeks lying on the …