For quite a few years now I have had problems with my knees. In December of 2005 I had surgery on my right knee and in December of 2006 I had surgery on my left knee. I had lateral releases on both knees to try and make them ‘track’ properly as my kneecaps don’t run in the grooves that they are meant to (kinda like a train that doesn’t quite fit on its tracks) and therefore the cartilage is being worn away. The surgery did a little bit of good but I also take a cocktail of drugs each day to enable me to function.
In about August of 2010, I spoke to my GP about increasing my medication as the medication was no longer keeping me pain free. She referred me to a specialist (as I had moved cities since my last knee surgery). I got in to see the specialist in May 2011.
In July 2011 the specialist suggested further surgery however when the hospital rang me with a date, it co-incided with my kidney surgery date! I asked them to hold off on surgery dates until this year as I had had a total of 4 anaesthetics last year and wanted to have a break before embarking on more surgery.
In December I called the hospital to find out if they could tell me when my surgery date was likely to be so that I could arrange work for 2012. They nominated 17 Feb as a tentative date for surgery.
Last week, I called and asked if that was still on the cards and was told that 17 Feb was out of the question and my date was more likely to be 16 March. I arranged work around this and started on Friday.
Today I got a call from the hospital saying they had had a cancellation and could I make the 17 Feb date for surgery. As I had already committed to work I had to refuse and stick with 16 March even though it drags the process out further.
The pic above is of what I use to strap up my knee on days when I feel I can’t get through the day without extra support. I use 2 tubular bandages (1 over the other) and some lovely skin glue called “it stays” which stops the bandage rolling down my leg as I walk. I have tried thermal knee supports but they don’t stay up and the “it stays” is not strong enough to support them.
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