Knees
So as you probably know (if you don't, here it is), I got surgery on my knee two and a half weeks ago, on the 20th of December, to get rid of OSgood-Schlatter disease.
Surgery went really well, and I find myself very lucky, because even during the first few days my knee didn't hurt at all if I kept it still, and if I moved it a bit the only pain was a dull, 1 on a scale of 1-10 pain, the exact same pain I've had for the past ten years. In other words, nothing I coudn't handle, even without painkillers.
The first few days were made of boring, in a sense - I stayed in bed or on the couch, read, played WoW, played Assassin's Creed on my sister's PS3 (which she was sweet enough to leave at my parents' place for the time I stayed immobile).
But now, it's unbelievable. Only two weeks after the surgery, I'm walking 90% normally and without crutches. I can feel that the muscle in my right thigh has lost its power, because my knee feels a bit wobbly when I walk. I can go up and almost down flights of stairs. I can sit with my knee at a right angle. I have another 12 sessions planned with an ostheopath, and soon, I'll take off the bandage for good.
The surgeon was a pretty famous guy, Pr. Moyen, and my godmother, who's a doctor, told me after the surgery that she knew him, that he had been one of her teachers. He was really cool. First off, he's like everyone's favorite uncle. He's an adorable guy. Second, he knows what he's doing. They didn't go at the calcification in my knee with needles, they actually opened in a vertical slit on the front of my knee, a centimeter below the patula, and got the calcification out from under the tendon, and closed in a way that makes it nearly invisible, and that means I probably won't have a scar. The threads are inside the wound and they disintegrate by themselves, which is cool because it means I don't need them taken out at any point.
I thought I'd be doing "Fear and Misery" with a splint around my knee, but actually, it probably won't be necessary!
Surgery went really well, and I find myself very lucky, because even during the first few days my knee didn't hurt at all if I kept it still, and if I moved it a bit the only pain was a dull, 1 on a scale of 1-10 pain, the exact same pain I've had for the past ten years. In other words, nothing I coudn't handle, even without painkillers.
The first few days were made of boring, in a sense - I stayed in bed or on the couch, read, played WoW, played Assassin's Creed on my sister's PS3 (which she was sweet enough to leave at my parents' place for the time I stayed immobile).
But now, it's unbelievable. Only two weeks after the surgery, I'm walking 90% normally and without crutches. I can feel that the muscle in my right thigh has lost its power, because my knee feels a bit wobbly when I walk. I can go up and almost down flights of stairs. I can sit with my knee at a right angle. I have another 12 sessions planned with an ostheopath, and soon, I'll take off the bandage for good.
The surgeon was a pretty famous guy, Pr. Moyen, and my godmother, who's a doctor, told me after the surgery that she knew him, that he had been one of her teachers. He was really cool. First off, he's like everyone's favorite uncle. He's an adorable guy. Second, he knows what he's doing. They didn't go at the calcification in my knee with needles, they actually opened in a vertical slit on the front of my knee, a centimeter below the patula, and got the calcification out from under the tendon, and closed in a way that makes it nearly invisible, and that means I probably won't have a scar. The threads are inside the wound and they disintegrate by themselves, which is cool because it means I don't need them taken out at any point.
I thought I'd be doing "Fear and Misery" with a splint around my knee, but actually, it probably won't be necessary!