My knee is still fricked up. There's a bone "subsiding" into the wrong place. It's all very confusung, I think because the geometry involved is actually complicated and not easy to show on a piece of paper.
Finally got all the darn sutures out and now I'm back to square one.
Long story short, they're gonna redo the surgery. I didn't ask too many questions because I wouldn't have understood the answers. But I guess this means back to cute nurses bringing me ice cream and graham crackers on demand for a few days.
Some of the damage is permanent. Certain muscles were just completely destroyed. So I'll be even more crippled than I was before.
I really hope I don't turn into Greg Abbott because of this.
Oddly enough, I actually kind of want to live though. So many people have helped me get through this. Maybe they had a good reason to. Maybe I can come out of this a better person. Maybe I can turn from a mean, bitter old cripple into a content, friendly old cripple. Maybe I'll invite some of you f-slurs to come here and go to Powell's with me and hear my stories about Portland before it was a shithole.
Powell's. The City of Books. One of the few places in Portland that is actually worth seeing.
Or maybe that's just the oxys talking!
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Just get them to replace the whole thing with a titanium rod. That's what they did to my old boss's shitty fricked up knee and he loved it so much he was begging them to do the other one.
Reject defective flesh and bone, embrace your cyborg future.
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I got metal in there now... which apparently they're going to take out and move around or something. I don't even want to know all the details.
One of my favorite possessions is a titanium rod they put in my hip and later removed. It's got a little chunk of my bone lodged in it so it's totally badass.
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holy shit get better doctors
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