All Cleaned Out

Mike had knee surgery today.

It was an awfully early morning. We had to be at Arkansas Surgical Hospital at 6:00 am. We took Carson over to my parents house so they could get him to school. Dr. Scott Bowen performed his surgery. Back in January of 2004 he had surgery to replace his ACL (that ligament shown in the middle of the knee in the picture below. He tore his ACL while playing soccer (thanks for asking him to play Chris Burks!) We knew that he would need more surgery eventually and he finally came to that point. He said he was tired of it hurting all the time. Today Dr. Bowen went in to 'clean it out'.

It took probably less than 30 minutes. He went in and had to clean up some frayed ends on the ACL. He said that he had to shave about 1/3 of it off. He also shaved some of the meniscus (on both sides of the ACL) and shaved up and cleaned out behind the kneecap.

The surgery may help...some.

But Dr. Bowen said that he would probably need a total knee replacement by the time he is 50....in 10 years. (yes, honey - that's in 10 years!!)We'll just have to see about that. Mike said that for that to happen he would have to be really bad.

His last knee surgery resulted in a blood clot in his leg. After a night in the hospital I had to give him shots in the stomach of a blood thinner. He got over it and PTL it never affected him. This surgery was way less in depth and he's way more mobile than he was with the last (although by the above picture you wouldn't think so).

Look what's on the pillow.

A cell phone.

A blackberry.

A remote.

What more does a man need?

Check out the great job they did on shaving his leg. Smoother than mine...of course that doesn't say much!