1 Year Later

So it has been a year since I had my last surgery on September 22, 2014.  So far it is still gone for the most part, there is still a piece lingering on the outer part of my leg, as shown in an X-Ray in May and a CAT scan I had earlier in September.  So I have to go back to the doctors once again in December and get another CAT scan to make sure that it is not getting any bigger.  Overall, I feel great, I did not even notice that there was something in my leg, and in my opinion, as long as it is not bother me, I would rather try to avoid having surgery again.  I just need this tendentious to go away, but I have been working out with a trainer and I have been feeling the best I have in over 3 years. I also believe that my leg may never get straight again, but between that and tendentious, it is way better than having surgery constantly.

Here is the results from the most recent CAT scan:

CT LWR EXTR WITHOUT CONTRAST RIGHT - Details

Narrative

CLINICAL HISTORY:
26-year-old male with osteochondral bodies seen on previous CR
imaging at lateral joint line and 04/15/2015.

TECHNIQUE:
Axial CT images of the patient's knee were obtained at 2.5 mm
intervals from the distal third of the femur through the proximal
tibia and fibula, examined on soft tissue and bone algorithm and used
as a basis for coronal and sagittal reformat images.

Comparison:
Previous CR imaging from 04/15/2015.

FINDINGS:
Multiple punctate areas of ossification are seen at the posterior
lateral aspect of the patient's knee joint prior CR imaging was
thought to represent multiple osteochondral bodies. There does not
appear to be an appreciable increase in the bodies compared to the CR
imaging from April of this year.

In addition, there is patchy osteopenia of the distal femur and tibia
which may be due to disuse or hyperemia.

There is mild narrowing of the medial compartment of the knee with
minimal osteophyte formation, and a similar degree of mild narrowing
and osteophyte formation of the lateral compartment and
patellofemoral compartment.

A small knee effusion is present. Extensor mechanism appears
unremarkable.

The coronal and sagittal reformatted images confirm the relationship
of the multiple osteochondral bodies at the posterior lateral aspect
of the knee with respect to the femur and tibia.

Impression

IMPRESSION:
No significant increase in multiple osteochondral bodies compared to
serial imaging from 05/15/2015.

So overall, it seems to be good news to me!

9 Months Later

So it has been a while since I have updated this, and it has now been about 9 months since I had surgery and most of this disease removed.

So I was at the doctors in Pittsburgh on Friday (9/20/13) and got some x-rays done.  Nothing major has changed, I could tell, as well as Dr. Weiss, that it has changed, but nothing that it bothers me.  It is still up to me if and when I want to have surgery.  I am just going to play it as not until it starts bothering me, like he said, it could be tomorrow or many years down the road.  Nothing new in the front of my knee, still as empty as it was since after my surgery.  My next appointment is in December, and then we will go to meeting every 6 months, then every year after a while.  No new pictures of my scars, they are generally the same as there were 3 months ago.

I bought an exercise bike and ever since I started using it my knee has gotten 10x better.  It is still sore on some days, especially with this time of year and the temperature varying like 30-40 degrees from morning to afternoon.

So other than that, I got married to Kayla on July 6th, we went on our honeymoon to Aruba, and I am one happy man cause I got me a wonderful woman!!  She is now all moved in with me in York.

Also, we got another puppy!! Here name is Hannah, so now we have Ellie Belle and Hannah Banana.  Ellie is on the right, and Hannah is on the left, she is half Black Lab and half Boarder Collie and she has a white glove, fingertips,

I also have another blog going on if you want to check it out:
http://inspirationald.blogspot.com/

It is updated almost daily.

Here is the Facebook page (that you should like!) and the Twitter feed (that you should follow and you will get a follow back!):
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5 months later

So it has been 5 months since I had my surgery on my right knee.  It is 45 days until I get married, we had our bridal shower over this past weekend and got lots of gifts, I have been at my current job for over a year now.  Boy, time has been flying!!

I did have this all typed up and my firefox decided to crash and I lost it all...  Now I am just trying to remember all that I said.

I feel that I got most of my range of motion back in my knee.  I have been walking a lot lately, going to this one park that is near my work.  Lots of trails there to walk, they are all paved.  Besides getting blisters behind my big toe on both feet, it is all going good with that and I am feeling better.  I bought new shoes for walking, Brooks.  Also bought some Band-Aid anti-friction stuff to put on my feet to help from getting blisters, it seems to be working so far.

I am using an app on my iPhone called MapMyRun, if anyone would like to add me my username is bmy61.

I go back to the doctor on Friday June 21st, around then will probably be my next post/update.  I will be doing these monthly and/or when I remember to do one.

I should be closing on my house in the next few days, so I will be moving into there.  Going to bring my mountain bike down from my parents house after that, so hopefully I can get back to doing that.

Other than that, below is some pictures of what my knee looks like as of today.

4 Months Later

So it has been roughly 4 months since I had surgery on my right knee.  The past few weeks have been up and down for my knee, it has been sore and then like today, it feels great!!  I am still doing my knee exercises and doing the Nike+ Fitness program.

Last week, I was up in Canada for a few days for work.  We left on Monday, flew out of the Harrisburg airport to Toronto, then to Montreal.  The same on the way back home.  The flight there was a good one, the flight home is a different story.  Had turbulence the whole way home, the worst part was from Toronto to Harrisburg because I was on a 18 passenger plane.  It felt like an hour long roller coaster, I still have a headache today from the plane ride.

So I am hoping to get out on my mountain bike soon, not sure if I am ready to hit up trails yet, but at least to ride and get my knee back into it and to get me back into shape a little bite and to lose some weight that I picked up from this surgery.

In 82 days I will be marrying my best friend Kayla!!

Well that is about it, my balloons are dead and lasted about 16 weeks, which is actually pretty good.  Also there is a picture below of my knee, little bit of swelling still there, but still icing and the back of my leg is still hurting the worst.  The bottom picture of my leg from behind is up-side-down.

14 Weeks Later

So this week marks 14 weeks since I have my right knee operated on.  Everything has been getting better day by day. It is hurting less each day.  I started to heat my knee before I work out all the time and it seems to be helping it, it hurts less during the day, and if it is hurting and I heat it before I work out, it feels a lot better during and after working out.  I am still icing it each night after working out.

Mountain bike season is coming up so I am getting pretty excited for that!!

Monday was my Ellie Belle's (my dog) 1st Birthday!!  Also, on Thursday, March 28th, is the day that it will be 100 days until me and Kayla get married!!

Not too much else to really talk about with my knee.  Pictures below of my knee, my dog, and the balloons which are almost done, surprised the one lasted this long.

10 Weeks Later

So I missed the update for the 9 weeks later, but nothing has really changed that much from 8 weeks until now.  I have my 12 week after surgery appointment in Pittsburgh, PA on Friday March 8th, next week.

For the most part, the soreness is less and less each day, I am getting more movement in it each day, I am still doing the Nike+ Fitness Kinect Game, (which works my butt pretty well!!), and the physical therapy exercies.  My knee is getting stronger, I attempted to run over the weekend, nothing far just like 20 yards and I am still a little slow and need to get my knee better for that.

The two baloons I got are still the same, one has floated down and the other is still a float.

Below is pictures of my knee, still swelled up a bit, I need to remember to ice my knee more often...  Still no feeling on my incisions, both front and back, and on the right side of my knee in the front and parts of the back of my leg.

My fiance made me the equation in the bottom picture. Isn't she amazing? :-)

8 Weeks later

So 8 weeks ago today I was under the knife.

This blog post will be short and sweet.

My knee is continuing to gain strength.  Through the Nike+ Fitness stuff, I am noticing that I can hop around more and longer on my right leg.  So everything is going good with it.  It has been normally sore, and every once in a while is hurting, but I can normally just take some sort of pain reliever and the pain goes away.

Here is my Nike+ account if anyone wants to add me: http://nikeplus.nike.com/plus/profile/BMY777/

The balloons I have been posting are still the same, the smilie face one is still afloat the other one is not.

Below is some pictures of my knee from today.  The front is still looking about the same, as well as the back.  Last night a scab came off of my back incision, and it was pretty big.  As you can see in the picture, there is a hole right now at the top of the incision where the scab was at.  I felt it pulling for a while now when wearing pants, today it was better from that so I guess that is good.

Anyway hope everyone has a good week!!

7 Weeks Later

So this past Monday (yesterday), marks 7 weeks since I had surgery on my right knee.

Since my last doctors visit, I have been working out a little bit since I have been cleared to do anything I want to do.  I have been doing some physical therapy stuff (same stuff as before but with weights), doing an exercise video, and doing some resistance band workouts.

With physical therapy, I am using an ankle weight.  It can go up to 20 pounds, but I am only using 4 pounds right now.  My knee is starting to get better with it so I am going to try to bump it up to 8 pounds either tomorrow or Thursday when I do it again.

The exercise video I have been doing is the Nike+ Fitness Game on the Xbox 360 with the Kinect.  It seems to be pretty good, works all aspects of your body.  There is some things in the game that I still can't, or not do that well.  There is stuff to do on my knees, and since I don't got complete feeling in my right knee yet, it is kinda hard to balance on it, but I am getting better and more used to it.  There is also some 1 legged things to do, I can do a few of them then I kinda have to cheat and use both legs.  I can do the balance on my right leg fine, it is the hopping around on one leg that kinda gets to my knee and starts hurting.  I am also doing some squats among other things that are working good for my knee.

The band workout I do is mostly for my upper body, I am trying to get my muscle tone back up there.  I am doing these when the Nike+ Training is not on the strength parts.  I am going to add in some leg workouts next time I do the bands.  I figure I can add in squats, calf raises, dead lifts, among other things.

Overall, my knee has been sore this past week and a half.  Just from being back at work and exercising.  I guess that is good because it shows that I am working it more than I was doing and hopefully I can be back to normal in no time.  Every once in a while I need to take some sort of pain reliever because of the pain.  The back of my leg incisions hurt every once in a while, just feels like they are pulling.  But as you can see in the picture below, there is a scab at the top of the incisions so I think that is what is grabbing onto my pants and bothering me.  My knee is still swollen a little bit, I am trying to ice it every night after I am done working out to try and help the swelling to reduce.

Well another week down, and another week closer to being fully healed.  Also, another week closer until I get married to the greatest lady ever (besides my mom haha).  My next appointment is on March 8th, which I am sure that I will be in and out of there for the most part.

Below is pictures of my knee from about an hour ago.  I took pictures of the sides of my knee as well, not sure if you can see the swelling.  I also took pictures of my baloons, just because one is still afloat.