I have OCD… not the one you’re thinking
This one required some knee surgery. Have a look…
OCD stands for Osteochondritis Dissecans {1}. It’s a developmental bone lesion. Mine was right on top of the femur and the lesion broke free from the bone back in July when Sarah and I were packing up our moving truck.
So basically, I’ve had a little junk of bone floating around in my knee for the past few months. By “little”, I mean it was about 1.5cm (roughly the size of a dime!). And the lesion turned out to be 14mm.
Below there are some photos taken from the scope surgery, including the fragments removed. Ouch!
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- recovery room
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- IMG_1682.JPG
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- Rob's too chipper
Footnotes:
- Here is some good background info [↩]
Wow, great pictures! It’s clear to me that “IMG_1682.JPG” was pre-Percoset and “Rob’s too chipper” was after… It’s a good thing they proved that they actually removed something from your knee, since the diagnosis of OCD “requires a high index of suspicion.“ But seriously, get better soon- I need to get back to beating you at raqcuetball…
No, Mark, I wasn’t faking it, if that’s what you’re implying.
Wow! Loved the pics. It’s awesome what they can do with a little scope. How’s the knee these days?
The knee is good. I’m off my crutches already. I’ll be back to volleyball soon I hope!
Not fun! Glad all went well and hopefully you won’t be going under the knife anytime soon! Merry Christmas to you both!!!
I have the same thing but they cant do anything about my knee until im older i got the bad knees from my mom i stil have about 7 years of waiting untill they can do anything about it because im not done growing