So its one week after my surgery now. I just got back from my follow-up with the surgeon and he took of the bandages and the brace. I can stop using crutches as I feel comfortable and can eventually stop using the brace too. I added these nice photos to show you how my knee has swollen up :) Although it isn't really all that bad.





I walked a few blocks today with a single crutch to get more used to walking. Anyway it feels pretty good now and I will start physical therapy soon. Fun stuff. One bad part is that I have to stop and talk to everyone about it and how I am doing etc :)

Halloween was fun I went to a small party that my neighbors threw and now I am headed back to work :( I guess you can only be sick for so long.

Checkout this picture of my new ACL, the silver rope like thing is some poor dead guy's ACL sitting where mine used to be :)

I had to be at the Surgery Center at 11:30 for a 1:30 surgery time. Mom drove my stickshift car which was a little bit exciting. I was fairly nervous for some reason, I wasn't nervous about my other surgeries.

We saw about 8 doctors or soon to be doctors including nurses, anesthesiologists, surgeons, orthopedic specialists, etc. I felt kind of bad since my surgery was somewhat elective and it looked like there were people there who had critical life threatening conditions.

Anyway it is over now and my knee is swollen with bandages and a brace around it. I am supposed to excersize it while lying down and keeping my foot on the floor 4 times a day. But I have some vicodin to help, which I haven't really needed yet.

ACLSurgery

ACLSolutions- Overview of ACL reconstruction surgery.

My Date is next wednesday and I am using a cadaver graft. I am not sure if they are using metal screws or not. Here is a good animation of ACL surgery.

I also found this story from a 30 year old. It does not make me very eager to have the surgery.

31 Year old Skier has ACL Surgery

Fotogenik

Checkout Kurt's fotografy site Fotogenik.  Here is a rather good one of a Chicago sunset.

fotography :: Chicago Sunrise

woke up thirsty

I got my webpage up and running again, so I figured I would post some more messages here for ya. Checkout my cousin's new music review blog.

woke up thirsty

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