Richard Haynes PTA/CPT - 9/13/2009

Question
I'm a 30 yr old female and I weigh 170 lbs and I've been having problems with my right knee giving out on me so the other day I went and saw my orthopedic for it and he took some X-rays and it shows there is a bone that is not connected to anything just sitting there so he ordered an MRI which I go for within the week to get that done cause the Dr wants to find out where the bone came from cause on the X-ray it doesn't show that. The Dr was planning on maybe removing it and filling the spot in from which it came from if need be and I was wondering if it is a surgery where they would keep you in the hospital for ? and one more thing should I let the Dr know that I can be a hard stick for IV starts ? also I did weigh 190 but I dropped down to 170 because I'm active with walking all the time. Any help would be helpful thanks.

Answer
Diana,

I would think you would not be in the hospital for more then two days, three at tops providing there is no complications of course. it sounds like a procedure that can be done rather quickly.

I will just inform the nursing staff as well about the IV stick situation. They work with patients like that often and some are more skilled then others when it comes to inserting IVs on difficult patients.

Good Luck

Richard Haynes PTA/CPT
Punta Gorda Florida.
www.richardhaynes.com