I don't know if many of you knew, but Jeremy had recently been diagnosed with a torn meniscus. A meniscus is the cartilage padding that sits on top of your tibia, your shin bone, and cushions the femur, your upper thigh bone. Mom currently has a tear in hers as well and hers is painful. Jeremy's hasn't been painful, but his knee would pop in and out and give out on him. More so in the last year. He has actually had this injury for about eight years, but this last year it has been getting bad. He got it checked out and found out what he had. In the meantime, he has been seeing a personal trainer which has really helped strengthen his legs and gotten him ready for the surgery.
So yesterday he had surgery and all went well. I waited with him until he went in to surgery and then waited about an hour and half for the doctor to come out and report. We were lucky to have one of our friends as his post op and recovery nurse, so she took good care of us!
If I can I will scan and post the actual photos from the inside of his knee! They are pretty awesome. There were actually two different spots that needed to be shaved off. One piece had torn and flipped over on itself. The other part looked like a pea under is knee cap. Waking up was a little rough and we woke up a few times during the night to keep the pain medicine going. Our smoke alarms also decided to wake us up, too, twice!! For no good reason!
We took the dressing off of his knee and it all looks really good. Three incisions, minimal swelling, lots of fluid and rest. He's able to get up and walk around, although it's a bit stiff. We are also icing it about twenty minutes every hour or so.
We'll try and take more pictures if anything interesting happens. Hopefully tomorrow and the next day the swelling won't be any worse.
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