The rewind....

Firstly, I wanted to explain the title of my blog. We've all heard the phrase "The light at the end of the tunnel.." Since I have had so many MRIs over the last 20 years, my "tunnel" is a MRI machine (which actually is a tunnel ...) Therefore... "The Light at the end of the MRI..."

Most of you know that I've had medical/orthopedic problems for about the last 20 years. I've had knee surgeries, other surgeries, casts, tests, doctors, physical therapy, hospitalizations, IVs.. ports, blood thinners for life and more.. My body does not absorb vitamin C and as rare as that sounds, even with IV vitamin C administered by me every night, I'm absorbing just a little amount. This is why I have a continual break down of my body.

I will start with the surgery I just had the one coming in a few weeks and the blog will progress from there.

The knee replacement from June, 2009 - some of the incision never healed so I needed to have a Z-plasty reconstruction done of my incision. This was an extensive surgery and I will remain immoblized and on crutches for 4 weeks. At the end of July, I will also be having an open lateral release. By 'open" I mean, not arthroscopic so it's another large incision to have to heal. I need this surgery because my kneecap is not tracking correctly on the knee joint.

Busy summer for me!