Way to go Mom

Since she’s the one with the liberal arts degree, and it pretty sums up my thoughts exactly, I’ll let my sister, @mcwonthelottery, speak for me:

My mom had surgery today.  Got her knee replaced for the second time.

AND HOW HARDCORE IS MY MOM? The surgeon went in only to discover that she had BROKEN her old metal knee. TITANIUM. SHE BROKE TITANIUM. The doctor had never seen it happen before. He’s sending it to engineers at Dartmouth University. Amazing. Way to go, mom!

To be fair, I’m pretty sure these knees are only supposed to last ten years, but my mom will never throw something out until it’s completely useless, so she had hers for sixteen. I’m pretty sure that shit got worn through.

She is doing well, though a bit out of it.  But she’s got her magic morphine, so life is good.

Yup, that’s about it.

Posted by Ben Jackson at 9:43 pm on February 10th, 2009. 3 comments... »
Categories: Personal.

3 comments.

  1. Hopefully the Dartmouth engineers are nice enough to contact the manufacturer of the knee, since they *really* like to see what happens when the products fail in the wild.

    ( I used to work at a manufacturing plant that turned out knee joints. )

    Posted by Bill Blum on February 11th, 2009.

  2. Yah, I know the bowl is the best part. In all honesty, I don’t actually eat any of the brownies… I just make them for the bowl licking process. :)

    Posted by Brianna on February 18th, 2009.

  3. BTW, that’s effin’ crazy about you mum’s knee. My mom has three butterfly pins in her shoulder and when they went back in a few years later they noticed her MUSCLES had wrapped around them and through them. They told her to stop working out so much. LOL.

    Posted by Brianna on February 18th, 2009.

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