STeveD
02-18-2010, 10:56 PM
No gross bloody pictures here...
... as some of you know from seeing me hobbling on crutches at First Frost, I had an ACL repair on my left knee at the end of November. I've had some intermittent intense pain for the last few weeks, and finally got it fixed today.
The ACL repair surgery involves taking two hamstring tendons (you have four) out of the body, twisting them together into a rope like structure, then putting the new tendon in to replace the ACL. The bottom end is held in with a screw below the knee (hole drilled into the tibia/shin bone.) The top end is held in with two surgical pins inserted into drilled holes in the outer femur/thigh bone.
So... somehow around the end of January one of these 1 2/3" pins made it out of the bone on the outside of my left knee, and migrated to the soft tissue of my inner medial thigh. This isn't the exact pin that came out of my knee ... that had to go to pathology. This is a brand new one he gave me as a souvenir.
http://spda-online.ca/modules/xoopsgallery/cache/albums/album91/SurgicalPin2.jpg
Surgeon claims, that after checking the literature, I'm the first one that this has ever happened to.
Lucky me. Honestly, lucky.. it seems like the new graft has actually held with just the one remaining pin.
... as some of you know from seeing me hobbling on crutches at First Frost, I had an ACL repair on my left knee at the end of November. I've had some intermittent intense pain for the last few weeks, and finally got it fixed today.
The ACL repair surgery involves taking two hamstring tendons (you have four) out of the body, twisting them together into a rope like structure, then putting the new tendon in to replace the ACL. The bottom end is held in with a screw below the knee (hole drilled into the tibia/shin bone.) The top end is held in with two surgical pins inserted into drilled holes in the outer femur/thigh bone.
So... somehow around the end of January one of these 1 2/3" pins made it out of the bone on the outside of my left knee, and migrated to the soft tissue of my inner medial thigh. This isn't the exact pin that came out of my knee ... that had to go to pathology. This is a brand new one he gave me as a souvenir.
http://spda-online.ca/modules/xoopsgallery/cache/albums/album91/SurgicalPin2.jpg
Surgeon claims, that after checking the literature, I'm the first one that this has ever happened to.
Lucky me. Honestly, lucky.. it seems like the new graft has actually held with just the one remaining pin.