Hi Fellow ACI'ers!!
Well......just had another dr. appt on Friday and we are heading toward what I like to call the un-imaginable phase! Seriously......it doesn't seem possible!! So......still no bone growing on the tibia and it's clear my knee now needs to be "cleaned out". What to do? I have to say I love my dr. and he does try to offer alternatives....but we are now down to 2. Here's where we stand: he's going to talk with the dr. who is eventually going to do my knee replacement and see if I can go ahead and have a knee replacement with the bone like it is and they can bone graft more bone in there while they do it (sounds a wee risky) OR if that answer is no, we'll need to do this more invasive bone graft where the screws (I have many) need to be removed, the area debrided and a larger bone graft implanted, then everything screwed back together. During this surgery, he'd also take a couple minutes and "clean out" my knee......so it can move.
The dr. is touching base with my (now) other dr and he should be calling me by tomorrow. I normally try to stay positive......but you know......this business is getting kinda old! :)
I'll let you all know how it goes........
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