Mark's first time skiing resulted in a pretty nasty crash. He damaged his knee A LOT!
He had to wait 3 weeks from the time he crashed, until the surgery. They wanted some of the swelling to go down. He had a torn medial retinaculum, and a torn meniscus (whatever those are).
This is a picture from the scope of the torn meniscus.
This is a picture of the torn retinaculum. If you look where the doctor drew the arrow, that is suppose to be connected.For the surgery, they had to make 2 small incisions for the scope. That part was a piece of cake. They also had to make a big incision, because they had to drill through his patella (ouch)! The surgery went really well, but it's a pretty long recovery process that he has ahead of him. He has to be on crutches for 6 to 8 weeks, with no pressure on his leg. Then he can start putting pressure on it, and walking without crutches. He will have to do physical therapy, which we are hoping he can do on his own. It will be about a year until he's completely back to normal.
Post op. picture.
Oh, and if you aren't feeling bad for him yet, here's the kidney stone he passed the morning of his surgery...YIKES!
8 comments:
My knee hurts jut by looking at those pics! OUCH!
That's so frustrating, I know it will be hard for him to be patient to get back to normal! Rhett had a kidney stone right after his surgery when he had cancer, what is it with surgery and kidney stones?!
Those pictures are so disgusting that I don't even know what to say except that Mark has super hairy legs. Sorry about your knee. :(
Oh man!! So sorry Mark!! Brett had to have his acl and mcl fixed once. He liked me waiting on him. He even asked for a milk jug to pee in so that he wouldn't have to go to the bathroom- very lazy, but I made him go on his own. Good luck with that.
You poor thing! That kinda gives you a different outlook on skiing! Bet you never want to go again!
Gross! You should have put a warning at the top of the post. Those pictures made me sick.:) I hope he can recover quickly. Knee surgeries are horrible! I hope this doesn't affect any summer plans!
Poor guys...looks PAINFUL!!! Thank goodness he's got a great wife and kids to take care of him. I wish him the best in the recovery.
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