I saw my knee surgeon, who did my original knee surgeries (about 3 years ago) today. He agreed that I need to see my other knee surgeon in Cleveland (he specializes in reoccurring patella instability, he did my left knee surgery a year ago). He also confirmed that my knee is much looses and I'm going to need a surgical fix.
I have an appointment scheduled with my Cleveland knee surgeon for February 8th. I won't know what this knee will need to have done until I see him, and until he can review my MRI (which I had done today), but I do know that it's going to be around the same thing that I had done on the other knee.
The other thing we'll have to decide is weather I have surgery now, as in before the end of February, or if I wait until school is out, as in sometime this June. There are pros and cons of both options. If I have surgery sooner then there is less possible damage to my knee because I'll be able to prevent another subluxation/dislocation. Another pro is that having surgery sooner will be able to guarantee that I'll be ready to go off to college without a problem in August. At the same time, I just had hip surgery a month and a half ago which doesn't give my body much time to recover and I will have to miss a couple weeks of school.
There is defiantly a lot to discuss with my Cleveland knee surgeon, so I'm looking forward to seeing what he has to say about all of this.
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