Prayers Answered - update on what’s next…
Prayers Answered!! Surgery approved!! I can’t believe I’m excited for surgery #5 (and potentially #6).
So here’s what the plastic surgeon is thinking. Based on everything that Ive experienced since my first knee surgery (November 3rd, 2020), she thinks that there’s a strong possibility that when the first surgeon went in, he inadvertently pushed the saphenous nerve (or one of its branches) INTO my knee joint compartment. That would explain why, whenever I try to walk or bare weight on my left knee, it feels like I’m being stabbed with an ice pick that’s on fire.
She’s going to perform a Left Saphenous neurolysis possible neuroma excision. Possible repair saphenous and reconstruction with nerve graph.
If she can find the entangled nerve, she can then cut it and reconnected it further down my leg. If that distance is too far, she’ll use a cadaver nerve to graph it together.
IF SHE FINDS THAT THE NERVE IS TOO DEEP into the knee joint… she will have to close me up and schedule a co-op surgery with an orthopedic surgeon to assist because they will have to open my knee more extensively. That surgery would just suck a lot more because they would really have to cut me up. That incision would have to go 4-6 inches up my quad and probably the same distance through and around the lower knee and upper shin.
HOW DID WE GET HERE??
As screwed up as it is… I was in so much pain and in tears at my pain management doctors office… that I just pleaded with him to kill the nerve or maybe cut it out. Through the tears, I saw a lightbulb go off in his head and he wrote the referral to the plastic surgeon. He told me that it was “actually not a bad idea”. Lol.
Either way… I’m praying that it works.
Pray with me on it. I could care less about the scars or whatever… I just want the pain to eventually stop. It’s too much. Honestly. I’ve felt lost, confused, heartbroken, desperate… can’t think. Can’t clear my head. It’s just constant torture. Like… I can’t explain it. Honestly I hope you never know what I’m talking about.
If we can relearn how to walk on a repaired knee… then hopefully the sciatica and the other nerve flairs in my left leg will begin to become balanced as I regain a normal walking gate.
Thank You for answering my prayers God.
Amen