Tiny
Senior Member
Torn meniscus happens every day but when you have to deal with it will make a person rethink how you do everything . My Doc told me " this is NOT a repair , we remove the piece that is causing the pain " .
That is what he did .
How I did it is just dumb . Had a busted spring on a freightliner chassis . new spring needed just a bit of lining up so I stuck my knee under it , raised with my ankle . Then shoved it the desired direction . It lined up good . But then I couldn't stand up . That thing hurt like no other . I had done this before and no ill effects but I also reached the age of 61 . Nearly spotted my bloomers when it happened . Then Like a dumb arse man I thought it would get better .. It didn't , went a month before I saw a doc . He called me a dumb arse without really saying it . MRI show a flap had folded over .
After a ton of sleepless nights and and a couple of bottles of advil they did the surgery . Walked out with a single crutch which I got rid of the next day . Doc told me there was some arthritis in that knee and there an even change of it taking off again at a much quicker pace . After 2 weeks of light duty I started easing back out into the shop to help my partner who had the whole load . The thing that hurt the most after surgery was my upper thigh . They used a fixture or tourniquet to shut of the blood flow and that thing bruised the heck out of my leg .
So what I have now is the ability to walk again but it's not without a penalty . Long days it get's achy . The old story of Grandma feeling the weather changing in her joints is true . Old Arthur has been given chance to bloom . An occasional pop or snap that is so far pain free ... And all of this could have been avoided by getting a second set of hands or a jack .
It was worse than this for a bit .
That is what he did .
How I did it is just dumb . Had a busted spring on a freightliner chassis . new spring needed just a bit of lining up so I stuck my knee under it , raised with my ankle . Then shoved it the desired direction . It lined up good . But then I couldn't stand up . That thing hurt like no other . I had done this before and no ill effects but I also reached the age of 61 . Nearly spotted my bloomers when it happened . Then Like a dumb arse man I thought it would get better .. It didn't , went a month before I saw a doc . He called me a dumb arse without really saying it . MRI show a flap had folded over .
After a ton of sleepless nights and and a couple of bottles of advil they did the surgery . Walked out with a single crutch which I got rid of the next day . Doc told me there was some arthritis in that knee and there an even change of it taking off again at a much quicker pace . After 2 weeks of light duty I started easing back out into the shop to help my partner who had the whole load . The thing that hurt the most after surgery was my upper thigh . They used a fixture or tourniquet to shut of the blood flow and that thing bruised the heck out of my leg .
So what I have now is the ability to walk again but it's not without a penalty . Long days it get's achy . The old story of Grandma feeling the weather changing in her joints is true . Old Arthur has been given chance to bloom . An occasional pop or snap that is so far pain free ... And all of this could have been avoided by getting a second set of hands or a jack .
It was worse than this for a bit .
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