8 months

It's been quite a while since I've written in the blog.  In part because it's easy to drift away (I now understand why others hardly finish their blogs), and also in part because I can't say a ton has changed since then.  Today I'm 8 months removed from the ACI surgery.  Although things are better than they were earlier on after the surgery (in particular before the clean-up surgery in March), I'm still uncertain on where I'm supposed to be.  I'm presently still worse than I was before the ACI surgery so until I at least equal where I was just prior to the ACI surgery, I'm going to continue to regret having done the surgery.  I hope some day in the next few months my opinion will change.  I have yet to get rid of the swelling in my knee (much of it, but not all of it), which I believe continues to hinder me from obtaining as much range of motion as possible and it's also still affecting my walking gait as I think the swelling also is causing a clicking on the top of my kneecap on most steps that I take.  It doesn't hurt but it's certainly annoying.  Upon standing up, if I apply equal weight to both legs it still feels like a twinge on the lateral/posterior defect area, prompting me to use my legs unequally.  And the medial defect area still causes discomfort - not to the degree it did earlier on in the recovery but it's definitely still noticeable.  So that's my update.  Again - it's not that I'm making no progress...but it feels as though it's been very slow so it's tough to see an end in sight.  Until next time...