My Knee Cap Essay

Have you ever gone to walk, and then fallen over only to look down and watch your knee cap slide back into place? Then realizing that you will once again be on crutches for another two weeks, having to sit out of whatever activities you had planned. Have you ever woken up not being able to feel your arm because your shoulder has popped out of joint again? Have you ever not been able to simply lay down because your scoliosis is acting up? This is what it’s like to have hyper mobility syndrome. The first time I remember my knee going out I was seven years old. I had been sitting on my bed reading an encyclopedia my parents had gotten me (I was a rather nerdy child), I had decided to get another one of my books. When I went to stand up my knee cap went completely to the side. I then yelled for my parents and by the time they got to me, I had popped it back in. From that point on it happened increasingly often. When I was eight I had just gotten home from trick-or-treating, I started to take off the calico cat costume my …show more content…
After discussing it with my doctor we decided surgery was my best option. So I had my first knee surgery in 2009. They added in another ligament to try and hold my right knee in place. A few weeks after the surgery I went to have the stitches removed. I had no idea what stitches they had used. They removed the dressing and to my horror there was twelve staples and an incision about 4 inches long, as well as a multitude of smaller incisions. When they took out the stitches the incision came back open. Now a positive thing about having hyper mobility syndrome (well aside from being very flexible) is that my skin is always very soft. The downside of this is that I scar very easily and badly. So once the incision healed it stood out a lot against my very pale skin. At this point I started trying my best to keep in hidden at all