It’s 3AM I can’t sleep my legs hurt and it’s time for a rant.
Sorry about the lack of posts from me I’ve been busy with some annoying crap which I might blog about at a later date.
I’ve not been having the greatest of weeks so far feeling frustrated and depressed and to top it all off my legs are killing me today, which is not uncommon for me but tonight it’s been pretty bad. I woke up about 15 minutes ago to an excruciating short sharp scratchy stabbing pain in my right kneecap , this was a partial dislocation of my knee cap when the kneecap suddenly pops out of its usual groove and jumps onto the groove’s edge (which happens to be close to a nerve) wonderful. The reason this happens is because the groove my kneecaps sit in is far too shallow meaning they can very easily dislocate and at night my leg muscles are completely relaxed and all it takes is a small twitch of my kneecap to set them off.
Back in 2005 I had my first operation on my knees which was having the tendons around my left kneecap tightened to help hold it in place. At the time I was still growing and it was the only thing I could have done, this helped but this would only be a temporary measure..
In December 2007 I had stopped growing so it meant I could have major surgery on my legs so I had my right kneecap repositioned so it would better sit in its grove and work more like a normal kneecap. This was a very complicated surgery which took 2 hours and required them to cut out a portion of my shinbone move some of my ligaments and tenders to allow them to move my kneecap they then screwed the bone back onto my shin bone. I was in hospital for 3 days after my leg got infected Treliske sucks! For the next THREE months (Christmas and my birthday) my leg was in full plaster and after that I had to wear a leg brace for a month and then lots of physiotherapy to build up the muscle in my leg which had completely wasted away. Darning this time I got very depressed I was in so much pain even with all the painkillers and for a month I was practically house ridden but my family and friends and almost daily visits from Martin when he was at college kept me sane.
After these operations my kneecaps stopped dislocating and for the next four years it was wonderful to not have to worry so much about my knees and to have to go through popping my kneecap back in hundreds of times a year. But there were a few down sides to having such major surgery on my leg, Nerve damage to areas around my shin bone and foot also the screws cursed me a hell of a lot of discomfit.
X-Ray of my leg after the Op
But in late December of 2010 my right kneecap dislocated again for the first time in four years while walking in town and most recently it happened in February whilst I was lying in bed. So then I had to start seeing my knee specialist again to have them X-ray point and prod me oh such fun. By this time my screws had started to really hurt a lot of the time and as they were no longer needed to hold the bone in place I decided to have them removed. So in February this year I had them taken out and they made my leg a little less painful and I regained some of the feeling I had lost in my foot which was nice.
Now I am on the waiting list to have an operation on my right leg, the same as I had in 2007. I’m feeling quite apprehensive about it but I know that it works and it’s well worth all the pain in the long run. I just really hope it will be the last major operation I have on my legs.
Oh bloody hell it’s 3:40AM now I should go to sleep. Oh and don’t worry I’ll be writing some techy stuff very soon.
Peace and love,
Samson
