Today I found out that I need surgery again...

Published 19 February 04 04:13 AM

What a drag.  I went to the Orthopedic Surgeon that performed surgery on my knee in November due to a blown out knee playing basketball.  When he went in with the scope last time, he found that I had just herniated the ACL and so he cleaned it up, tested it for strength and decided that it may work if he did not reconstruct it right then.

So I went to him today because my knee has been getting worse and now it hurts to walk and I limp because of weakness in the knee, so I wanted to find out what to do.  I got in there and he told me that we needed to reconstruct it, that it should not be that bad after 4+ months.

So I am scheduled for surgery on Tuesday next week to reconstruct my ACL and get my life back to normal.  My only stipulation to the Doctor, was that I MUST be able to attend the MVP Summit during the beginning of April and thereafter attend the ASP.NET Connections in April as well, then in May attend TechEd.  He said that he would have me up easily within 2 weeks or so and doing well at 1 month.  So I am going ahead with it.

All I can say is, This better be the last surgery I have for a long, long time. (knocking on wood)

by benmiller

Comments

# Christian Weyer said on February 19, 2004 1:52 AM:
All the best!
# Annita Krapp said on February 19, 2004 2:24 AM:
Break a leg.. oh wait..
# Oleg Tkachenko said on February 19, 2004 4:42 AM:
Good luck, Ben!
# Wallym said on February 19, 2004 5:03 AM:
Ouch. I hope to meet you at the MVP Summit.

Wally
# DonXML Demsak said on February 19, 2004 5:31 AM:
Good Luck, and hope everything goes well. I know someone that had the same operation done recently (and it was basketball related too), and he was fine after a couple weeks. You should be good as new by April.

Don
# Doug Reilly said on February 19, 2004 7:18 AM:
I can only add that you recover quickly. I look forward to meeting you at the MVP Summit.
# G. Andrew Duthie said on February 19, 2004 9:06 AM:
Look on the bright side...at least you'll get to drive that cool red scooter again! :-)

See ya at the summit!
# Robert Love said on February 19, 2004 12:16 PM:
Best of Luck. Let me know if you need anything. Such as a driver to the next Utah .Net UG meeting :-)


# Love Robert said on February 19, 2004 12:56 PM:
Also let me know if you need some hot karls or a good donkey punching *knowing wink* ;)
# Mitch Denny said on July 10, 2004 3:29 AM:
G'day mate!

Didn't realise you had a blog until yesterday. Just catching up on some of your posts. I hope your knee is in good shape. When I was in high school I had an accident whilst playing tennis (being stupid, doing a ballarina shot). Anyway, I ended up not walking for six months in total because of the time it took to have the op, then the recovery time. Still have a screw in my knee to this day holding stuff together.
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