Surgery pics

I finally got a CD of my sugery pics: (here are some of the better ones, and the ones of which I can remember what it actually is...)

My torn ACL (ugly, huh?) - I couldn't even begin to tell you what is what in this photo.

My new ACL (Apparenlty, I received a really good, solid, thick cadaver graft, so thick in fact they had to take shave down bit of bone off my femur - you can see the reddish brown part where they shaved off where the graft goes into the bone at the top of the photo.)

Smooth bone, no fractures

Undamaged meniscus (smooth surfaces)

Damaged medial meniscus (look for fraying)

Damaged lateral (I think) menicus

Damaged medial meniscus

More damaged meniscus (not sure which one)

And still swollen after 20 days, but you can only see one scar (I have five total)

Post-surgery photos for your viewing pleasure

Here are some photos of me post surgery (1 day, 2 days, and then 11 days). I should have been better about taking a photo a day, but in all honesty, my swelling didn't go down much since surgery anyway, so there wasn't much to show you. Hopefully with the compression sock and physical therapy I can get the swelling down much more and take some new photos later this week. You can still see the steri-strips on my incisions. I can take those off this week. No stitches though, so that's good. There are also some photos of the food and flowers I got at home while I was recovering.

First day post-surgery (exhausted):

Second day post-surgery (2 photos):


Eleven day post-surgery (2 photos, swelling down a little probably due to my lovely compression sock):


Some of my goodies (flowers from Dad and Kate, food from work, fruit basket from the two partners I work for):

There is a new post (about my first physical therapy appt.) below the one of Ben's GRILLZ....I started it Friday, but didn't have a chance to finish it. So it's there now.