Personal Essay: The Impact Of My Knee Surgery

I remember they gave me a wristband when I was admitted and it was the absolute worst feeling in the world. I remember the surgeons talking to me about the surgery! They were really positive and told me not to worry, basically it was a night of hearing “everything will be okay” and I just couldn’t allow myself to feel okay. I picked up the scrubs and cap that I would be wearing to surgery, the scrubs had cats and dogs hugging all over them, I liked them

I was rolled into the operating room, without a clue as to how much my life would change, nor how quickly. Back surgery is no small operation. But imagine it in the eyes of a thirteen-year-old girl. The surgeon fused my spine and placed titanium rods in my back in an effort to correct my scoliosis. I came out of the hospital with more pain than any soul should ever endure.

My ACL Tear Journey At The Hospital A quick turn on a soccer field led me to the worst experience in my life. A while back in my sophomore year I tore my ACL while I was practicing for my first soccer game of the school year. I made a quick turn without positioning my feet correctly on the ground. I thought that I broke my knee, but I never knew that after that day I would have experienced the worst day a month after on February 15th.

This personal concern can affect an emotional area of my life. I can develop emotional problems such as depression and anxiety because of injuries that has pronounced long term effects. Another emotional area that will affect me is having bipolar and mood swings. I will feel good some days then when I have a thought of not having the function of my right leg I can go in my quiet state where I will not want to interact with anyone. A physical area that will be affected is not being able to do daily activities such as walking, running, joggling, playing sports.

Im not going to lie, itll be the worst pain you have ever felt in your life", said my docotor the day i found out i was going to need back surgery. i was 14 years old, about to start another season of competitive cheerleading, with my second broken back and my soon to be first surgery. I never thought that i would have to go through this, all through my life i was a pretty accident prone kid, i broke my wrist three time and broken my ankle once, but never did i think i would break my back twice, and not at this young of an age. The first time i broke my back, i was 12 years old at gymnastics practice, i fell off the high bar onto my neck, and broke three vertebres, T1, T7, and T8. i wore a full neck and back brace for about 6 months, it wasnt all that bad, i got use to it and so did the other kids at school, it was off before i knew it and i was back to doing all my favorite actvities and sports, except for gymnastics.

It was a beautiful and sunny day, birds flying, clear sky. It was a good day to play football at school. Playing with my friends was a little challenging for me because I couldn't reach up high equally to catch the football. So I told myself would I have a straight arm and have equal arm strength? So my mom called Holmes Jr. High and told me that I was going to start my second surgery in Texas. The problems that I had as a child was that I couldn't reach behind my back. Not being able to reach normally made it tough to do some of the sports I liked to do as a kid. I always asked myself, how many surgeries I have to go through to have a normal arm? All of the surgeries were done in Dallas, Texas where I had my first surgeries on my arm. My parent

Gawande finds that after the surgery, people are filled with a newfound confidence from their extreme weight-loss. Furthermore, he maintains that the operation is the sole current procedure that is effective, particularly as most patients do not gain back much weight. By the last time Gawande say Caselli, he had lost significant amounts of weight due to food losing its appeal in his eyes. In fact, malnutrition is more of a risk.

Before Charlie got the operation, Charlie would never have the confidence to help anyone. In addition to the operation, Charlie got to experience friendship and love. Charlie got to experience friendship and love like a normal human being. “The thought of leaving her behind made me sad.

This article discusses that Medicare and insurance companies are seeing an increase the cost of surgery with new technology advances such as the robotic arm. The increase could be because more people are getting these types of surgeries and the cost for robotic surgeries are expensive. I chose this article for my paper because it talks about the possible increase of costs

I do not want to continue to live a life in which I am bed-ridden and do not have the ability to breathe and live on my own. The book says, “ in many cultures, comes in its own time,“ (Burkhardt & Nathaniel, 2015, p. 264). Just as the quote says, it is my time to pass along and even as I think about it now I can accept that. I also don’t want my friends and family to dedicate their time to my recovery or vegetative state. There is nothing they could do to help me recover from whatever illness is keeping me in the hospital.

Irene will be grateful for the rest of her life if you do this surgery. This will be the last surgery that Irene will have. She won’t have to go through anymore surgeries and could live a normal life. I’ve done these kinds of surgeries thousands of times and every time has been a success and I hope to keep that the same with this

To begin, before the operation Charlie was much more happier and healthier in both a physical and mental way. First, Charlie always enjoyed having company around him, and he loved spending time with his “friends.” Keyes added, “We had a lot of fun at the factery today… that made me laff. Their really my friends and they like me” (317). To elaborate, he thought his coworkers were truly his friends although they made fun of him; however, it made Charlie happy and excited to go back and see them.

Before receiving this assignment I was living the dream. I was playing college basketball and living with two of my best friends and teammates. The night before we were first informed about the M.I.R.R.O.R. assignment I injured my knee for the third time, and my life completely turned upside down. I have been forced to move back in with my parents in Ankeny and have needed help with almost every daily task of my life. This reflection on my inner responses comes during a month-long period where my environment has drastically changed, and will include insight from my mother who has been helping me every step of the way.

It’s not just going to hurt, you are going to feel pain that you have never felt before and I wish I could do something about, I don’t want to see you in pain. But there is nothing that we can possible do to make the pain going away.” Mum grabs my hand and holds it. I can see the fear in her eyes and I realise that she isn’t scared for herself, she is scared for me. “Once you do make the transformation, you won’t be able to control what you do anymore.

The knee joint is one of the strongest and most important joints in the human body. It allows the lower leg to move relative to the thigh while supporting the body’s weight (Taylor, n.d.) as knee joint is one of the major weights bearing joint in the body. Knee joint plays an important role in our daily lives such as walking, running, sitting and standing. It allows physiological movement such as flexion and extension. The knee joint is also known as tibiofemoral joint. It is a synovial hinge joint formed between three bones which are the femur, tibia and patella (Taylor, n.d.). There are two rounded, convex processes which are known as condyles on the distal end of the femur. The distal end of the femur meets two rounded, concave condyles at the proximal end of the tibia (Tyalor, n.d.). A thick, triangular bone which is known as patella lies anterior surface between the femur and tibia.