I had another operation on my leg recently and have had some pretty radical surgery done, thats why I aint been so active just recently, have had leg straightened a bit by shaving the inside working edges of both bones into the knee on one side, all metal taken out and a whole chunk of bone taken off the outside edge of my thigh bone... they resited the kneecap, roped a couple of tendons...but the chunks of dead bone they took out from the side of my thigh meant that I only had just over half the bone on the inside edge...the outside edge was stripped of dead stuff...
This is what it was like with the metal in.....
pretty savage metal eh?
...and then without the metal, this is after 5 and a half weeks...
Just in case the writing on the x-ray aint that clear it shows on the left side as we are looking at it that the bolt holes have almost healed solid...on the right side between the 2 points indicated a whole slab of bone was taken off because it was dead, surgeon stripped back ALL the dead bone from all over the knee area...
This below is how my lower leg looks now...
and that is pretty much from direct on the front view...
If I was a horse I would have been put down...lol...
But anyhow, This is how it all went...
They had planned to keep me in for a week as its what they class as radical surgery, no f chance! I usually escape within a couple of hours from waking up...lol...but I do it in such a clever way I make it seem like its their idea...so the damn anaesthetists were discussing WITHOUT ME to me having an epidural and then waking to a PCA Machine when awake...NO F CHANCE!!! So i told them that I would have a simple knockout with the "White" stuff, no idea what it is but I wake easily from it...so they said ok, then discussing giving me morphine for the pain after the op, I TOLD him that I wanted NO MORPHINE as I react badly to it...it makes me very aggressive and very angry...I also told him that I wanted NO PAIN RELIEF for after the op at all!!! ...and when I woke up I was told that I had been given some very long lasting pain relief directly into my leg...My leg was hurting MORE than a fresh break, and MORE than a repair job done...I know what they both feel like as I refused any pain meds at roadside... The brain can do so much more pain control than drugs can, and so I rely on that and it works for me...I have real bad reactions to morphine, it makes the pain about 4 times as bad and makes it so the brain cant deal with it so it feels like around 8 times worse...I reckon the b****** shot me up with morphine...all symptoms were like morphine...uncontrollable pain and thats another typical symptom of morphine for me...when I checked with them I found out it was morphine and then I should have started proceedings against the person who authorised it without my consent...b******!!!
They planned to keep me in a week or so, I had no intention of even staying overnight, and as they dont do discharges over a weekend I decided to push the limits and start to get ready to give them their bed back with me out the door...lol...
I undid the clamp and fixed to closed position, unscrewed the pipe at the joint to venflon, hung it up and then took off surgical gown, then put t-shirt on, she then checks the venflon and walks away confused...
Underpants back on, got denim jeans and leathers back on, nurse asks if doctor has been to see me yet...lol... hung up drip the way they do it so it looks like one of them has done it, sit looking innocent, then as doc comes to see me to see how I am, told him I feel fine (I was ready to go home, I felt fine), he agreed I can go home, nurse goes to get discharge papers ready, nurse notices that in past I have taken off full leg casts at appropriate time, have taken out stitches at appropriate time, have taken out metal staples at appropriate time, they bring me a few changes of dressing that I can do myself, with all the sterikits and sealed pre-sterilised caliper forceps to remove staples...lol...(they are getting to know me...lol...they must have read my notes!), Then discharge papers signed they get me a choice of wheelchair or crutches, I took the crutches...
As aftercare they said I was to keep the foot off the floor for 8 weeks, then for a further 8 weeks minimal weight bearing, then a further 4+ weeks of partial weight bearing, then a further period of time to learn to walk again...lol...NO CHANCE!!! ...lol...I started walking on it very carefully after just 4 days...
I started to build up the leg during the first week, and YES, I was warned that the leg should be treated WORSE than a break as all the bone that was left would be so brittle that even a slight tap on the side could break it again too easily, but I chose to ignore that trusting instead to taking care to not get into any kind of situation where the leg COULD get knocked...it felt great, so i continued as fast as possible to strengthen it, about 2 weeks later I was sat in my truck and actually had NO PAIN - 1st time in 12 years...
Anyhow, I went for a 5 week check and had the above x-rays done and as they show, I have had around 5 months of bone growth and development in just over 5 weeks!!!!!
Good News huh? .....or is it bad news as I am now able to come back on here a lot more often...lol... You choose.....