Chris' Knee Surgery

On Monday Chris got his knee fixed. Chris injured his knee during our vacation to Alaska. Something about a moose? That and some scar tissue and old tear from an old injury meant that he had to have some arthroscopic surgery to try and clean things up.

For those of you into the the gritty details, he had two tears in his medial meniscus, an old tear in his lateral meniscus and a grade 2 tear of his MCL (medial collateral ligament) there was also a lot of scar tissue on his ACL from an old injury (likely the same time he tore the lateral meniscus). The Doctor wasn't sure if the ACL would need repair or not, fortunately she thinks its stable enough on its own. She did cleanup the meniscus tears as much as possible which should keep his knee from locking up on him. The MCL tear was already starting to heal and had not completely torn through so she decided to let it heal as repair would increase the healing time and require physical therapy.

Chris either being a little twisted or maybe a lot twisted, opted for a spinal anesthetic and remained awake through the surgery so that he could watch. Yuck!

This is Chris just a little while after surgery, wide awake and ready to go home other than a very numb left leg.

One of the tears on his meniscus as seen through the arthroscope.