Well isn't this a kick in the crotch.

**gina** · 05-21-2009, 11:08 PM

So my doctor told me today that the surgery I'm gonna need is pretty major. It's called an osteochondral allograft. I have to go to a fucking special surgeon that does this specifically. There's no doctor in New Jersey that does them. I'll probably have to go to New York or something.

What is gonna happen is they're gonna take a piece of cadaver (cadaver!) femur and cartilage and replace parts of my femur and insert more cartilage into my knee joint where I don't have any. My doctor said he's never seen this problem in someone as young as me.

So I'm on crutches now to take some pressure off of it until I can find a surgeon to perform this. And I have to lose even more weight than I have been which will only help with the pressure.

The only upside to this is handicapped parking, and the fact that I got to sit in the handicapped seating tonight at the Yankee game. And that I bought a Mark Teixeira jersey.

Basically I'm a cripple and I want cards in the mail with checks inside. :/

**thank mr skeltal** · 05-21-2009, 11:12 PM

As if we needed any more ammunition for why fencing is a dumb sport...

I tease, I tease. All the best to you with 'Ole Car Wreck Victim's leg bones.

**mkdisciple** · 05-21-2009, 11:24 PM

How exactly did this happen?

I know, I know, 'lurk more noob"

**gina** · 05-21-2009, 11:25 PM

Athletics/genetics/I don't really know.

Also rick fencing is a terrible sport, don't worry.

**sycld** · 05-21-2009, 11:32 PM

Aww, that sucks

I hope it goes well

Don't think of it as a piece of femur from a cadaver... think of it as an organ transplant.

**Nermy2k** · 05-21-2009, 11:35 PM

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**MrShrike** · 05-22-2009, 02:48 AM

Nermy knew that coz he had a dead guy's crystal ball implanted into his scrote.

**Fectual~** · 05-22-2009, 08:29 AM

(Eeew dead guy bones.)

Good luck to you Gina. It's amazing how doctors can do this sort of thing.

**ViciousMentality** · 05-22-2009, 09:11 AM

Well I won't send you a card with a check inside but I would send you a card with a shiny nickle.

So... does this mean you'll be like, part zombie?

**Shinysides** · 05-22-2009, 10:38 AM

I don't have anything funny or witty to say, so good luck with the surgeries.

**simonj** · 05-22-2009, 10:49 AM

Hope you don't die.

**KT.** · 05-22-2009, 01:36 PM

post your address so we can send you money. none of us will stalk you or anything

**Anonymous D** · 05-22-2009, 01:56 PM

My mom just had to have a full knee replacement.

Good luck with that.

**Vengeful Scars** · 05-22-2009, 02:03 PM

Send me the drugs you get prescribed

**Anonymous D** · 05-22-2009, 02:18 PM

No me.

**k1nk0s** · 05-22-2009, 02:55 PM

don't come home in a bodybag

oh wait that would be pretty cool

**Lewis** · 05-22-2009, 03:39 PM

You'll have a dead person inside you.

Forever

**simonj** · 05-22-2009, 06:37 PM

Britney Spears is dead inside. That's why she can only dance in that way now.

**sycld** · 05-22-2009, 06:47 PM

Originally Posted by simonj

Britney Spears is dead inside.

hey, gina can get her femur from her!

**ViciousMentality** · 05-22-2009, 08:58 PM

Originally Posted by sycld

hey, gina can get her femur from her!

Then she'd be a famous slutty zombie.

**Vengeful Scars** · 05-22-2009, 09:09 PM

I'd hit it

**simonj** · 05-22-2009, 09:27 PM

Who? Zombie Gina or Zombie Britney Spears?

**Vengeful Scars** · 05-22-2009, 09:57 PM

Yes please

**no_brains_no_worries** · 05-23-2009, 01:08 AM

Start milking this. Tell everyone you are Jessica Lynch and get free shit from sympathetic morons.

**Pepsi** · 05-24-2009, 04:52 PM

gina's a yankees fan?

**TheDudeFish** · 05-24-2009, 11:42 PM

Originally Posted by Pepsi

gina's a yankees fan?

I think i've found the source of the problem

**thank mr skeltal** · 05-25-2009, 12:10 AM

so to recap this thread, gina has cancer of the leg
good luck with the chemo, toots
be brave

**sycld** · 05-25-2009, 03:05 AM

Originally Posted by Rick Scarf

so to recap this thread, gina has cancer of the leg

...and a disinterred corpse is going to have its femur cut off and put into gina.

gina will have a zombie leg.

**MrShrike** · 05-25-2009, 05:07 AM

The image of her future zombie lurch, with 1 dead leg trailing behind, is just perfect.

**jacob** · 05-26-2009, 02:36 PM

You know, always look at the bright side. I bet you'll get some awesome prescription drugs. And a bunch of morphine in recovery. Your gonna be all fucked up on opiates and constantly feeling good. woo!

**StonedOne** · 05-26-2009, 08:21 PM

Originally Posted by jacob

You know, always look at the bright side. I bet you'll get some awesome prescription drugs. And a bunch of morphine in recovery. Your gonna be all fucked up on opiates and constantly feeling good. woo!

It'll be great up until they take her off the morphine (if they give her that at all); it's that addictive.

Hope it goes well (and that they can fuck you up on everything but morphine).

**jacob** · 05-26-2009, 10:11 PM

I got a very very minor surgery where I stayed awake the whole time and they gave me morphine 5 times. I think for that kind of surgery they'll give him morephine or something stronger. I also got a prescription for 40 percosets which were very fun.

**simonj** · 05-27-2009, 06:33 AM

Originally Posted by jacob

I got a very very minor surgery where I stayed awake the whole time and they gave me morphine 5 times. I think for that kind of surgery they'll give him morephine or something stronger. I also got a prescription for 40 percosets which were very fun.

Gina is a lady.

**gina** · 05-28-2009, 09:12 AM

Originally Posted by jacob

I think for that kind of surgery they'll give him morephine or something stronger.

I'm appalled that you think I'm a man.

And appalled at your poor spelling skills.

morphine ftw.

**Anonymous D** · 05-28-2009, 12:47 PM

lol @ jacob

**Shinysides** · 05-28-2009, 12:49 PM

lol @ Anony D's avatar

actually I lol pretty much everytime I see that

**jacob** · 05-28-2009, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by gina

I'm appalled that you think I'm a man.

And appalled at your poor spelling skills.

morphine ftw.

I didn't look at your name, lmao. And the spelling was a typo. My bad. and ftr, morphine rocks.

**faesce** · 05-28-2009, 09:14 PM

DONT RAIL IT THOUGH!

**gina** · 05-28-2009, 10:59 PM

Do you think I'll be made fun of if I show up to the gym on crutches? Obviously I can't do leg stuff (although I can strap on some ankle weight and do straight leg raises) but I just think all those muscular men will be laughing at me. Even their muscles will giggle.