Home from Surgery! Long Road Ahead...

[stone_dragone]

Ladies and gentlemen, I now sit at my computer beginning my climb up rehab mountain (not to mention feeling high as a kite from my percocet).

The surgery went well. The doctor did a cadaverous tissue alograft (I now have a dead person's Achilles tendon where my ACL used to be). Apparently his words to my wife were that my ACL was "...like a piece of untwisted yarn..." I guess over the last few years it got nice and shredded.

I don't know who the donor was, but I will call him Fred. Thanks, Fred.

 

[HKphooey]

Glad to hear you are back home and healing.

Here is to a speedy recovery!!!!

Be well.

Surgery done by base Doc's?

 

[Drac]

Glad to hear it went well...I just screwed up my knee on duty and am awaiting an MRI..

 

[Jade Tigress]

Wishing you a quick, easy recovery. :asian:

 

[bydand]

Hope you heal quickly!

 

[benj13bowlin]

Was it a military doctor that performed the surgery? I don't know what branch you are in, but when I was in the Army I doubt our doctors could have passed vetrinarian school (If there are any Army doctors on this forum I was talking about all the others excluding you). I still remember the brutal sessions of predeployment shots, and I had surgery on my thumb and its still not right.

 

[14 Kempo]

The first step has been taken, the surgery is complete. Good luck on the road to recovery. I hope it's a short one.

:cheers:​

 

[terryl965]

Glad to hear you are doing fine and I will also say thanks to fred. I hope it will be speedy. When does your therapy start and what is first?

 

[stone_dragone]

It was a military doctor who did the surgery, but he is fairly young and I assess that the Army hasn't ruined him yet.

My first PT appointment is tuesday, but I have the go-ahead to try and do some mobility exercises (0-90 degree, etc). Today I got about 30 degrees before it really started to hurt like hell. I'll try a few more times before I go to bed tonight. I just have to remember not to overdo it!

Thanks for all the well wishing!

 

[buldog]

Good luck with the rehab. You think Fred has a spare collarbone I could borrow?
Scott

 

[exile]

Best wishes for a speedy, easy recovery, s_d... one where you wind up being better than you were in the first place! It doesn't usually happen that way, but, hell, we're wishing, right? So might as well go for broke...

Glad to hear it went well...I just screwed up my knee on duty and am awaiting an MRI..

Bloody hell, Drac—how did that happen?? Can you walk and move around?

 

[stone_dragone]

Good luck with the rehab. You think Fred has a spare collarbone I could borrow?
Scott

As soon as I can get close enough to my knee to ask, I will...it'll have to be a whisper, otherwise people will think I lost it...

 

[buldog]

Thanks! I wish my doctor knew Fred before he experimented with bone grafts from my hip(I should have ran when the surgical nurse looked at me kind of strange when I told her she forgot to shave my hip too before the procedure but I would haved looked kind of funny running down the hall with my butt hanging out the back of the gown).
Anyway, "Take it one day at a time just like the drinks do"
Scott

 

[Kacey]

Wishing you a short and painless recovery! Good luck with the PT - and, as you said - remember not to overdo it; that'll just lengthen your recovery in the long run.