I have an abiding interest in technology and technological change. For quite a few years, I’ve been working on a project that I called “Technophobia,” which has subsequently metamorphosed into a number of other things. The closest thing I have to a...
Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the rebuilding of my right knee by Dr. Andrew J. Feldman. The surgery involved a high tibial osteotomy, an ACL recision, and a microfracture. When I saw Dr. Feldman three months ago, he was very pleased with the result. The...
I have a new knee brace. The old one (shown below at left) was put on in the operating room. It had stiff pieces of metal running along the sides and bottom, and it wasn’t very comfortable. The new one is much more comfortable — and much bigger....
If you have a taste for gruesome pictures, click the continuation of this entry. You’ll get two pictures: one of my right knee, unveiled for the first time after surgery, with the osteotomy incision prominently shown and staples still in place. The other picture...
It’s now about four days since my knee surgery was completed, and things have gone incredibly smoothly so far. I came home on Tuesday night, about 24 hours after the surgery. The hospital offered to let me stay another night, but I was eager to get home to be...
