Chopperlump-
New ACL allograft, extensive repair of numerous chondral defects.
The new connective tissue used to be the achilles tendon of a nineteen year old young man (hopefully he's in a better place now), there were tears, cracks, and voids showing the ends of my femur and tibia. For a couple of the tears there was trimming, for some of the cracks (I think) there was stitching, and for the major chondral defects where tibia and femur were showing they went in with hammer/punch and initiated microfractures on the faces of the bones - to instigate new cartilage growth.
Recovery was estimated at 4-6 months.
I'm not half way through it yet, the process has been tough and painful.
It looks like all's going well with the process, and the doctors say I'm healing well.
I am seeing this time as an investment!
So, do you have some .620 roundball?
I'd really like to get this little rifle running...
--Tinker
