Virtual Knee Replacement Surgery
Thankfully, “all” I’m having is ACL reconstruction and meniscus repair surgery. However, it was interesting stumbling upon this:
virtual knee replacement surgery
It’s interactive (Flash), so some of you may be turned off by it — particularly when it’s time to whip out the bone saw and go to town on the patient’s femur, tibia and patella! 
Total knee replacement obviously requires a much larger incision than I’ll emerge from the OR with. I expect I’ll have two 1-3 inch incisions, one above and one below my knee, for the bone-patellar tendon-bone graft; in addition, I will likely have 1-3 small “portal” incisions for the arthroscopic equipment to view and repair my torn meniscus. While there will be drilling, it will be limited to drilling out small bone plugs from my tibia and femur (with the patellar tendon attached), and securing those bone plugs at their new anchor sites. I’m not sure if I’ll have self-absorbing screws or metal screws used to fix the new ACL (the bone-patellar tendon-bone graft) in place. I don’t care either way — it’d be something of a novelty to know I had two small bits o’ metal in my leg — bionic woman! 
