Geek Habitat

I wish I’d thought to use Flickr back when I was blogging the results of my knee surgery!

Well, in honor of the upcoming 1 year anniversary of my new knee, here’s a new Flickr photo set: Knee Surgery (Feb 2005)

None of the photos are new — they’re all in various entries here on GeekHabitat, in the Knee Health archives.

I don’t have any “fully healed” photos of my knee, but our late 2005 mountain & road biking photos speak volumes about the health and stability of my new knee!

I believe the Universe actually had a glitch yesterday, serving up all of the Friday the 13th crap a day early. Proof? Mount Wannahockaloogie (ours), and bank b.s. (over at Darn-Tootin.com)

Who knew laundry and gardening were so dangerous, painful and expensive!? I try to do as little of either as possible, these days! (Kidding!)

Dad, look what you started!

Background:

On a funny note, shortly after my surgery I was visiting my parents and Dad pulled out a metal stud finder (for detecting metal supports and other objects inside a wall) and ran it over my post-op knee. I didn’t think it’d register the screws, but sure enough, my three titanium screws registered on the studfinder. It was a little weird, to say the least. He did it shortly after surgery. I wonder if now, over 9 months later, if they’d still be detected or if enough bone has grown over the screw ends to obscure them? What can I say, my family and I have a healthy sense of curiousity.
– Shannon Moore, reposted from Bob’s KneeBoard.

Who knew ACL recon’d knees and a metal studfinder could be so much fun for the entire family!?

I still pop in to Bob’s Knee Board occcasionally to see how familiar names are doing in their post-op ACL reconstruction recovery and resumption of normal life and activities. There are some regulars on the board who are well beyond their post-op periods but still provide input on the boards; one such person is Michael Frind. His posts are drafted offline and are so packed with technical details that it took me a fair amount of time (and distance from my own post-op period) to really find the value in his posts, beyond their potential as a natural sedative.

It’s time for a knee update since I’ve been posting a few messages on The Kneeboard this evening.

I am coming up on my one year anniversary (February 4, 2005) of my ACL reconstruction (hamstring autograft) and dual meniscus repair (bio-absorbable screw repair to lateral menisus, excision of 30-40% of my medial meniscus that was irreparable).

I’m experiencing a bit of what a weekend warrior like myself might term “adventure overload”. A little too many adventures in a little too short a timeframe to let my mind and body recouperate.