Surgery 6: Right knee arthroscopy. Repair torn medial meniscus; extensive calcification of entire knee joint.
Surgery 7: Left knee arthroscopy. Repair torn lateral meniscus.
Surgery 8: Open re-exploration left foot, plantar aspect. Morton’s neuroma removed.
Surgery 9: Open tibialis anterior tendon repair.
Surgery 10: Left ankle arthroscopic and open fusion of talus and calcaneous. Intraoperative complication: tourniquet not applied to limb, resulting in moderate blood loss through the bone.
Surgery 11: Bilateral osteotomy of hallux valgus deformities in the first metatarsophalangeal joints, with sesamoid removal bilaterally.
8.5 hours in theatre today, and got to actually scrub in. I’ll go into detail of the scrub-in process some other time – it’s rediculously complex.
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