PICTURES!

!!!WARNING!!!

THIS POST CONTAINS GRAPHIC PICTURES!

MOST RECENT PICTURES (LEAST GRAPHIC) WILL BE AT THE TOP

OLDER PICTURES (MORE GRAPHIC) WILL BE TOWARDS THE BOTTOM

I'M TRYING TO WASTE SOME SPACE...

SO THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO SEE THE PICTURES WHEN YOU OPEN THE PAGE...

I WANT YOU TO HAVE TO PHYSICALLY SCROLL DOWN TO SEE THEM...

ALL THE PICTURES WERE TAKEN WITH MY CELL PHONE, SO THEY'RE NOT THE GREATEST.

HOPEFULLY THAT'S ENOUGH WASTED SPACE...

This first picture is from about 18 days after the surgery.

So, let's talk about what you are looking at.

The small incision on the inside of my knee is healing nicely. As you can see almost all the scab is gone. This is where they drilled into the larger knobby portion at the very bottom of the femur.

The two red spots at about 12 o'clock are blisters. Just below them on my knee you can see a tiny cross-shaped incision. This was one of the two entries for the arthroscopy procedure.

The long incision in the middle is where they performed the tibial tubercle osteotomy. (Slicing off part of the shin bone.)

The next two pictures are from 12 days post-op.

All of the tape is still on in these pictures, so that makes it look even better.

In the picture showing the side you can see the crazy swelling.  That is from the lateral release - where they cut some ligament to release tension.  You can also see the other cross-shaped incision from the arthroscopy.

This next picture is from 5 days post-op and just for reference (because it's hard to tell what you're looking at with all the swelling) Micah took this picture from my feet.

BEAUTIFUL!!!

PUERTO RICO, HERE I COME!

And just to give you an idea of how bad the swelling is - here is a picture from the night before surgery.

A very well-defined, tilted, messed-up knee cap. This should be the most graphic of pictures.