[Artemisia] more on knee issues

[Gene Smith]

My condolences.
I hope that the advent of the new Clinic in Rock Springs and it being 
run out of either Cheyenne or Sheridan will help matter somewhat for 
you and the rest of us vets.

Frideger
(Otherhill)



On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:07:37 -0600
"Georgia Foster" <jo_foster81 at hotmail.com> wrote: 
> I had been wondering why the knee was not getting better.  Last 
> month, I had a disability review, which showed the repair had been 
> compromised by about ten percent, even though I had done everything 
> I had been told to, and nothing that I had been told not to. 
>  Yesterday at my follow-up VA appointment, we found out that I have 
> a Cyclops Lesion.
> 
> OK ? this was a new one on me; what the heck is a Cyclops Lesion? 
>  Some web search shows the following:
> 
> Definition
> A cyclops lesion is a complication of anterior cruciate ligament 
> surgery, where the new replacement ligament slowly strips away and 
> bundles into a knot, jamming up the 'intercondylar notch' and 
> preventing the knee from fully straightening. The lump sometimes 
> looks like the central eye of a mythical 'cyclops' monster, hence 
> the name.
> 
> 
> In short ? the repair is eating itself.
> 
> There will be another MRI ? as soon as the VA can schedule it, to 
> determine growth rate, which will in turn determine my place on the 
> surgery schedule.
> 
> Leave us hope it will be less than the two year wait it took to get 
> the original surgery scheduled.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Malkin
> Otherhill
> Artemisia
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Reach inside your self: find the joy in simple laughter.
> 
> Jo (Georgia L.) Foster
> jo_foster81 at hotmail.com
> 
> 
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