So here I were ready to go to emergency spine surgery as soon as there was a OR time free. Time went on and after 24 hours I was getting wheeled up to OR. Outside they discovered that they had forget my allergy against latex and had to put out new instruments. So I had to wait outside OR 45 minutes. Meanwhile a cute nurse had me write down a cucumber recipe to keep me occupied.

With all meds in my body that took time... .

As we build up our reference resources on the topic of 'arthrofibrosis', I have decided to keep them together in a 'keynote'. Here you find in one place all Dr Noyes' tutorials about arthrofibrosis, Dirk Kokmeyer's rehabilitation tutorials, all the literature reviews I have tackled so far, and several other papers of interest to readers.

   I guess I should have given a bio on how this knee crap started. I played tennis all through jr high and high school. That court can tear your knees up, but when you are young, you don't think about the damage you are doing to your body. I would wake up at night with my legs cramping so badly I would cry half the night. As I got older and started my family, my knees settled down, or so I thought. I had a silent enemy that was working overtime, osteoarthrtis was going to town on my knees.

Here's a nice shiny new blog site for me to post about my ailing knees! I have been using livejournal for my blog posts, concerning everything (not just the knees) but at least now here is a place directly specific to my ongoing knee problems.

http://akam-i.livejournal.com/ is the place to go if you are interested in reading any of my previous entries. The recent ones are knee-related, to find other blogs on my knees you'd have to delve pretty far, so I will summarise here:

Too young for a lifetime of pain.

I consider you a  Pediatric Case." Said the second OS I saw. Sure I wanted a second set of eyes to review my condition. But I didn't expect the next sentence to come out of his mouth.  I would only consider doing your knee replacement once you turn 40. I didn't fit the 60 year old profile that many doctors consider the ripe age for replacement.   

There are so many sites on the internet now that doing a search can be really frustrating. Especially when up comes dozens of sites with the same content or, even worse, sites with nothing but ads on them. Also one has to comb through the content to separate out the type of content a patient can understand from the type of content aimed at surgeons.

So I have put together two search engines (using a Google application) especially for you. One has patient content and the other is content for doctors. There should be very little rubbish coming up when you search.

After 1 month with epidural and then back on painmeds that didn't do anything more then making me high I was set to go to the other hospital for to get my Spinal morphine pump inserted. Hell was that I needed to shower twice without my Immobilizier. They had to be 3 persons to help me shower to get me somewhat comfortable. I got injections before and after the showers. I don't think I ever have cried and lost my breathe so many times like I did now. An ambulance came and picked me up early. 2 nice young guys making me laugh when the bumps in the road made me cry.

Thursday I had my first of five Supartz injections in my left knee. I am always so stressed out about getting injections this is my second round this year. The injection pain is pretty intense but fades away after a few hours. Far better than having a knee replacement. I had my right knee replaced Dec 2006. It is almost a year since my right knee was replaced. Come to think of it.

As we are jumping to the bulletin board, each link will open in a new page - to get back to this list, just close the new page -

Arthrofibrosis Centres

"Arthrofibrosis Specialists"

Would like to hear from other AF patients that have seen Dr. Shelbourne

So there I were...just found out that I have RSD. For you how don't know RSD you can more or less say that is a neurological disorder. Simply say..you experience awful severe pain that shouldn't be there as the injury is healed. That idiot to OS told me that I had to live with this pain that I wanted to get rid of. Every second is a fight...I just want to die. I asked them to chop the leg off. NO that won't help is the answer. If pain had been the only problem. Along with the pain I have huge swelling in my entire left leg, can't wear any kind of shoes. The skin is very sensitive.