What's in a crutch?

Well, I've done it. I've reached lucky number 7 on my tally of knee surgeries for my left knee. Last Friday I went in for arthroscopic surgery and am currently laying in a recliner with my leg propped on a mountain of pillows. Not a very productive posture so it's sort of torturing my overachiever side. The funky "cooler" on my head is the water supply for this air cast/cooling cuff - offically called the "cry0-cuff"! We went through lots of ice but it works like a dream!

The "good"news is that they actually found something concrete to fix (more torn cartilage) so there's a chance that I'll get some pain relief. The bad news is that there is ful bone-on-bone arthritis progressing on the outer edge of my knee from previous loss of cartilage. I could go on an on about my knee and all it's surgical history but its long and boring and probably ends with some sort of joint replacement somewhere down the line. I'm sure there's already plenty of sympathetic pain going on at this point so I'll just post this to get it over with so I can move on with the good stuff.

It did get me to take a real vacation - the first one in YEARS! Off to the beach...