Where it all started....

So here I am just days... well nevermind it's 2 am. Here I am a day and a night away from my MPFL reconstruction surgery and I am still looking up information... I am sooo tired and frustrated and stressed....

To give you some background to my predicament...

August 11, 2012

I was standing on my friends Jetski at the best place in the world... Crescent Bar if you haven't been there you can't talk.. :) And then I went to simply get off the back of the jetski and just standing there talking to my friends my knee gave out and dislocated I fell into the water and it relocated... It felt like I was under the water for hours... that's when it hit me I totally blacked out if even for a second. I had friends who helped me get to the car and get in it and then made the trek to the hospital where I tried to go without pain medication but failed greatly. Then I saw a new pcp doctor who then sent me to get an MRI and then see a specialist. My specialist sent me to a surgeon who didn't correctly diagnose me so for months I was going through physiotherapy and dislocating my knee everyday for months and on medication for pain, nerve issues, sleep problems, infection and so on... It all changed when I got a nerve block to stop the nerve issues but ended in more pain then I started with so went to Harborview Hospital and they had a neurologist come to see me and talk to my doctors. She told me to get another opinion because something is not working right if I am still in this much actual knee not nerve pain. Through it all I kept thinking....

So November 5, 2012 Almost a full 3 months after the accident I meet my new doctor who after 10 minutes of looking at my most recent x-ray (I have been in the hospital over 5 times since the first issue was found) he found bone fragments and a frozen knee. So I had another MRI and found that I have bone marrow edema and a torn mpfl. So surgery it is and was suppose to be December 12, 2012... well surgery was rescheduled due to an active infection in my body and they needed me to do more blood work and try to get better first because with cadaver ligaments you don't want to get a infection. Now surgery December 28, 2012 8:15 am it is.

After a good month still icing it!!

 After almost two months of PT and doctors appointments STILL icing it!!! Because so swollen.



I am so frustrated by all the sources available on the subject I never knew that I would be getting a surgery that has little wide known knowledge and is rare I guess it goes with my luck these last 4 months... :) So I want to post a blog about being positive through it all and that will help me to get better faster and get back to my life and a healthier life. I can't wait and I hope I can help those who have questions about it as well. So here are a few photos to start it off...

 

Even with this issue I have kept my humor and sarcasm why leave those behind and become depressed.