Check out the hardware in my knee! It’s a titanium and cobalt chrome implant on my distal femur with a plastic implant on the underside patella. It makes me think of Catherine Wheel and Mad Max: Fury Road (shiny and chrome!).
This past Friday, I saw my knee surgeon and I’m thrilled to share that my recovery from the kneecap replacement/MPFL reconstruction is going well! I have been discharged from physical therapy for the knee. I’m now back to physical therapy for my neck/shoulders.
On deck: surgery on the right foot/ankle. My right ankle has been problematic since I was a teen. It gives out all the time. I can strengthen it through physical therapy, but when I lie down or sit, the ankle just flops around. The tendons are all stretched out so there’s nothing to keep the ankle stable. That’s the problem with many parts of my body, thanks to Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
I wear a brace when I sleep because even the sheets on the ankle can cause pain. My physical therapist joked that it would be best if I slept in a sensory deprivation tank. I won’t be able to have ankle surgery until at least May of next year (hafta wait for the left knee to be 100%). Meanwhile, I’ll be wearing an ankle brace much as possible (the brace hits my cuboid bone and causes pain) and/or using various mobility aids.
This Charming Amy 
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