Well, that's weird...

[shadesofmauve]

The last time I read up on procedures I had as a teen, I read, basically, "Oh, that was excruciatingly painful and left really nasty-ass scarring. We do it better now."

This time I found "Growth plate stapling was used because growth would resume when staples were removed. And then people realized it didn't."

So, er, yeah, the staples in my growth plate to temporarily halt growth and twist my knee back into position may theoretically be contributing to weirdness now? It's amazing what you learn when you haven't actually had an X-ray in ten years.

Also, if anyone's really macabre and wants inch-long titanium staples that were in my knee when I was sixteen, I still have 'em in a little plastic baggy. I'm thinking of mailing them to my friend Evan.

Without an explanation.

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[baxaronn.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure no one's come up with anything better than the surgeries I had as a kid... but I sure hope they're doing them better, because it was really fun to find out years later that they overcompensated and fucked up my hips in the opposite direction. :Db

Yay for medical progress.

[shadesofmauve]

It's interesting to look, actually -- I didn't realize they had a new way of doing this until I went digging.

And, yeah, yay. I mean it non-sarcastically; progress is GREAT. It's just... weird... when you know you were the learning experience.