South Africa

Hey Everyone,

It's been a while, and actually a fair amount has happened since the last post, so I figured I'd give y'all an update. I went to Nairobi a little over a week ago to get my knee checked on again, since it had been hurting me for the past 5 months. After talking to the Doctor, and to the PC med staff, it was decided that I should come down here to South Africa to get a arthroscopic surgery to fix my meniscus. So I get down here to Pretoria and see the ortho as I'm describing the injury from last June he tells me my ACL is torn. I let him know that I had an MRI, and the doc in Kenya didn't mention anything. I then undergo the physical exam, and he tells me again my ACL torn, and then we look at the MRI from June and he confirms that my ACL is, in fact, torn. He showed me what a healthy ligament is supposed to look like (he showed me my MCL), and compared to that my ACL looked like it had exploded. Anyways, I had the ACL reconstruction this past Wednesday, so everything is fixed and i'm well on my way to recovery. I actually opted for the regional anesthetic so that I could watch the surgery on a monitor, which was pretty cool. I haven't had to take any pain meds yet, which I'm happy about, and i've been able to put some weight on my leg, so hopefully I can keep progressing quickly and head back up to Kenya sooner rather than later. Anyways, i'll keep updating and let you know if anything interesting happens while i'm down here in South Africa. Talk to y'all soon.