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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hiya im a cripple with musculoskeletal damage too! what's the cause of yours?
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Hello fellow crip!
I slipped on black ice and fell and fricked up my tibia about three weeks ago.
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and you needed four surgeries? wow! do you have a preexisting condition or smth? that's really rough, i'm sorry :(
i have had surgery recommended for my issue but i'm really nervous as it is very complex, painful, and has a LONG recovery time where i will be wheelchair-bound
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I had one surgery but there was so much swelling it took two more to jam everything back inside. I imagine it was like trying to stuff more things into a full suitcase. Now they realized the first surgery didn't work so they're trying again.
Make sure it's in the winter. Nothing is more infuriating than being unable to walk during the summer.
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oh that's awful i'm so sorry! and yeah it could be like up to a year its a difficult recovery
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