[Artemisia] Malkin's Surgery

[Sue Clemenger]

Best of luck and healing to you, Malkin.
I've had to have reconstructive surgery done on both knees.  The left 
has had its ACL replaced (allograft) and meniscusususus <g> work, 
following a bad accident while walking home from work through a 
construction zone (sigh), and the other needed work as well, especially 
after an Uprising a few years ago (love the showers, but HATE those 
stairs!). Outpatient stuff for me both times, so I'm guessing your's is 
a LOT more complicated!
It's wonderful, though, to be able to move without hurting and wobbling 
and falling all the time!
--maire

Georgia Foster wrote:
> It is with EXTREMELY mixed feelings that I announce the date for the 
> first of the knee reconstruction surgeries has arrived.  Tomorrow ... 
> Tuesday, October 12th ... is the pre-surgery consultation.  The actual 
> surgery is scheduled for four hours on Wednesday, the 13th.
> 
> The procedure will involve replacing the ACL, MCL, and PCL with donor 
> tissue and re-contouring as much of the meniscus as possible.  For the 
> layperson... that is all but one of the stringy bits that hold  together 
> the very complex machine that is the human knee.
> 
> Anyone in the vicinity of Salt Lake City Utah this week is invited to 
> come see me at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital.  I should be 
> there from Wednesday until Friday.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Malkin
> Otherhill