I had a successful knee surgery on 11 Dec. The doctors fixed my ACL as planned but also fixed my MCL and cleaned up my Meniscus since there was a considerable amount of scar tissue; there was a lot of damage. All things considered the doctor told Amber that my knee would be better than most men's knees till the arthritis starts setting in twenty or so years from now.

Amber waited patiently the whole time amd drove us home afterword. She's wonderful.

Compaired to my previous general anesthetic experience this went very well...no nausia afterword, I was able to eat as soon as we got home without any problems, which was very nice since I had been fasting since the previous days lunch.

Goerge was a trooper the whole time, I think he slept the mjority of the time we were on the road. Uncharactoristically Amber did not have the camera with her so we don't have pictures of the facility, doctors, nurses, and before and after of the leg, I guess you will just have to imagine a really nice facility and lots of great poeple...and of course my beautiful leg with the middle third shaven and then wrapped quite tightly to cover the five little incisions they made to fix it up; hows that for a picture?!

Now a couple of days later I am feeling rather useless on the couch as I have a hard time completing my physical therepy excersizes or getting up to do anything else at all. Yesterday I had my first physical therepy appointment, which though somewhat painful, I thought went rather well. Chad (the therepist) was impressed that I could, the day after surgery, bend my leg more than 90 degrees and straighten it out to 0 degrees. The leg lifts are a little painful but the bending stuff really smarts every now and then.

That's life right now...eat, take pain pill, sleep a little, hold George, change the occational bum (not mine), excersize, eat, pain pill, sleep, repete. I'm going to try to go back to work Monday, I'm not sure how that will go, but I think I'll be glad of something else to do. We only have another week before the university shuts down for a couple of weeks for Christmas and New Years Day so I will have some unstructured recovery time and hope to make the best of it.

It would really nice to be walking after the first of the year; I think that is realistic. I go in next Friday to get my stitches and staples out we will see what the doctor says then.