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Still waiting on a call informing me of the time of surgery. I'm not allowed to eat anything after midnight tonight, so I'm hoping for a morning surgery.  Thankfully I'm allowed to drink until 2 hours prior.

Continuing the list of procedures...

Procedure #5 Distal Patella Realignment (code #27418)
AKA Elmslie-Trillat Procedure
AKA Distal Osteotomy
This procedure starts by making a long silce from just below the knee cap down about 2 or 3 inches so that they can access the a part of the shin bone known as the Tibial Tubercle.  It is located on the front of your leg at the top of the shin bone, just below the knee.

In this image you can see the tibia tubercle located just above the 'a' in the word Tibia.  You can also see the patellar tendon is attached to this part.  The idea is to slice off the tibia tubercle with the tendon still attached to it and move it slight towards the inside (left side of my right knee) and then screw it in place. Currently my patellar tendon is pulling my knee cap towards the outside.  This procedure will realign that tendon so that it is straight.  It will also help tilt my knee cap down into a more natural position.

And the last procedure is to remove a some floating particle that showed up on the x-rays.  Looks like a par of bone that chipped off during one of my injuries.

Keep in mind that I'm learning all this as I go along and I'm sure that 75% of what I've described isn't accurate, but this is how I understand it. My doctor said that my knee is... (yes, he even paused to consider what words to use) "anatomically wrong." Fantastic. Oh well, we all gotta deal with something, right?