Due to my recent dislocate-my-knee-and-thus-have-cadaver-put-in-my-knee escapade, i have now gained a newfound appriciation for the things I used to take for granted, especially my friends and family who have stuck by me through this whole mess. This injury/surgery has for all intensive purposes catupulted me into being a bedridden 21 year old geriatric patient. I cannot even do the basic things needed to sustain life on my own. At the most, other than the bathroom breaks when it gets to the… Continue

CRAWFORD NOTCH, N.H. -- Two hikers missing in Crawford Notch since Sunday were found Tuesday morning -- exhausted, dehydrated but otherwise OK.



Alex Obert, 30, and Stephen McCay, 29, both of Arlington, Va., were found on the back side of Mount Eisenhower. A helicopter spotted the men walking and took them off the mountain at about 10:30 a.m.



"We're feeling pretty good," Obert said. "Glad to be out of the weather and into some dry clothes."



The men were in good… Continue

Hello All, today i got word that two of our FF/EMT's in my county have been missing for over a day after going on a hiking trip in New Hampshire,

please, please, please, keep the both of them as well as their family and friends in you thoughts and prayers!

~Marie

got outta surgery at about 1130hrs.... other than a dull ache, and what feels like ive been stabbed in the knee (guess scalpels count lol) i feel pretty good.... doc says surgery went awesome.... put the cadaver ACL in me and smoothed up some rough cartilage they found

T- 3 days til the knee surgery

bought myself a new toy! :) sig p239 40 cal :)

its prettttyyyyy!!!!

had my first pre-op Physical Therapy session today... didnt do much exercise wise, but got a take home sheet of exermercises...



what we mainly did is use the e-stim which is where they basically electrocute you muxcles so that they spasm which makes them basically get a workout without me physically working them



it was the WEIRDEST feeling I have ever felt...... like it was a cross between tickling and how it feels when you run into a dog electric fence... and the whole time… Continue

Hey guys.... so i talked with the orthopod today about what the MRI

said...... I ruptured my ACL, have fluid in the joint, and bruised all

the bones..... ACL is def torn thru and thru and it has a gap in it big

nuff for me to even see as a quasi-layperson. Fan-freakin-tastic



Surgery to drill holes in my bones, put dead person ligament in me

(scrum-diddly-umptious), and put screws in is scheduled as of now for

next friday (day after valentines, aint that… Continue

meeting with orthopod tomorrow to find out what the verdict on my knee is