Surgery

I was out of it this past week, but I'm sitting in the porch in the sun. Tuesday, April 9th at 8am I rolled stupidly into surgery on the right knee. The knee lay mangled and marked for revision. Even with the Smith and Nephew custom cutting guides, Dr. Joel McClurg took three hours to finish the revision.

He held 2 concerns going in. One, finding the screw from my Hauser procedure of 25+ years earlier. It's metal obscured its location on the MRI. He probed the general area seeking a metal on metal "ting." Once found he was able to unscrew it back through the bone as designed!

Concern Two, how worn down was this guy's patella? He removed 14 mm of "cauliflower looking" material from the base. The button still fit flush on the bottom. Some extra holes needed to be made in the remaining hard bone to enable gluing.

At 12:30pm I was parked in room 203 to begin recovery.