After tearing my left ACL during a highly competitive dodgeball tournament with co-workers (yes, I'm serious), I scheduled ACL replacement / reconstruction arthroscopic surgery through my ortho. It's been almost a week since my surgery. The surgeon used a cadaver ACL to replace my torn one...that seemed a little weird at first. Of course a month ago I joked with my ortho to 'find me a good one' and he said they only use ACLs aged 18 years or less. Okay, bad joke. (How sad.)The recovery is going well. I'm hobbling around now without crutches, which is good since I fell over last week trying to use them. The fam took great care of me during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. My new ACL seems to be getting along well with the other ligaments so far...the MCL and PCL have welcomed the newcomer with open...er...well........fibers.
A bit of good news...I've officially hit my annual out-of-pocket maximum expenditure for the year. The MRI, the physical therapy and appointments with the ortho pretty much did me in. This means that most surgery, drug and physical therapy expenses will be no charge to me since I already hit my 'spending cap', as some people call it. I call it my 'knee cap'.
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