Surgery Update

I haven't wrote on the blog for awhile; but I think I have a good excuse. I had surgery on May 20th for my 2nd ACL repair, 4th knee surgery, and 9th surgery overall. What a blast!! The doctor had a little bit of trouble getting my screw out from the previous surgery to I have a larger incision than anticipated on the side of my knee to go along with the large vertical incision below my knee cap. Altogether I have about 5 stitching sites. I thought I would be getting along faster than I am; and am annoyed that after 2 weeks I am barely getting back to work when I only expected it to be a week; but what can you do? Jon has been great threwout everything. Always getting things for me and making sure than I am comfortable and happy. (doing cheeseburger runs and ice cream constantly throughout thee 2 weeks; hey whatever makes me happy right?) Sadly I have seen my ice cream diet shift to my tummy so I'm ready to start some physical therapy today and get things moving!! I saw my doctor last week and apparently my incision below my knee is getting a little infected and not healing properly but thats mostly because he went through the old scars so it's practically dead skin anyways and just taking a little more time to heal. My mom was a little nausiuos looking at it all purple and bubbly that I had to cover it while we were waiting for the doctors. I did play a little doctor last night and looked at it; Jon was still grossed out but it is looking much better! Here are some pictures.

<---Infected incision


This is my ice pack. It came with a small cooler that you fill with ice and water and plugs into the wall and circulates cold water all around my knee. Pretty cool and it came with the surgery! Maybe this is my punch card? 9 surgeries and you get a fancy ice pack for free?? ------->