Knee Surgery Consultation. Torn ACL +Torn Meniscus

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]Oh, when you pull up to your doctor's office and this is the parking lot. This is the parking lot. I wish you guys could smell all of the trees.

[00:00:11]Joel, this is so cool. I don't care what anybody says about Utah. I love it. I love Utah.

[00:00:17]>> I love Utah. Thank you for getting me to the appointment safely and on time for >> the second time.

[00:00:25]>> Got a little questionable there for a second. Did you lock your truck?

[00:00:29]Ow.

[00:00:32]Just just to let everyone know.

[00:00:36]And I even hate admitting this.

[00:00:40]I have a cold sore that was confirmed by the dermatologist. in the exact same spot as last time. Right here on my hand, right here on my finger, right here on my thumb, and my tongue is full of cankers, and the top of the inside of my lip is lined with cold sores.

[00:01:00]Luckily, you can't see them on the outside. That's nice.

[00:01:03]And I just I don't know what I'm doing, what I'm eating, what it is that's making this happen. Oh, I forgot to tell you. We're here for my knee appointment.

[00:01:15]Do you want to know what I learned today? I have two screws in my knee. I had no idea. I had no idea that I had two.

[00:01:26]>> And he immediately knew. He's like, "Okay, typically you don't see this kind of surgery in the knee." But because you were so young, obviously they were going around your growth plates. I no longer need the screw that's in my like kneecap.

[00:01:38]>> That's a nightmare causing so many problems. I have never ever been able to kneel down on my knee and he said that we get to take it out and he without me even asking he said I get to keep it. I was like well I was going to keep it anyway no matter what she said. I >> was coming back in that surgery.

[00:01:54]>> I was going to make sure that happened.

[00:01:57]>> He is such a wonderful doctor. I love him so much already. I can just tell.

[00:02:01]And he said he goes you've been hurting for a while. He said have you felt unstable for a while now? And it made me a little tearary because it felt very uh validating, but I was like, "Yeah, it has not felt completely stable for a while."

[00:02:16]>> And he said that there's some arthritis um in the knee, and you can't get rid of arthritis, but you can you can stop it from getting worse. And the way that everything is right now and the way it's rubbing, it's going to continue to get worse. And so, he'll take the screw out.

[00:02:35]Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[00:02:37]>> Use a graft, >> a donor graft to fix the ACL, he's going to fix the meniscus. And there was something else I was going to say. He said that in a normal 40year-old, you would not see that arthritis.

[00:02:49]>> But because I've previously had knee surgery, the arthritis is there and it's going to continue to get worse if we don't fix it. So, >> just say no to arthritis. Considering my surgery was done 30 years ago, I feel like my first surgeon did a wonderful job.

[00:03:07]>> Yeah, I think I think you were in good care for your age and for what happened.

[00:03:12]>> I think so, too. I do remember he came in after surgery and he said after I did your surgery, he said I had blood all over my um like whatever.

[00:03:27]>> Yeah. Whatever he had on. and he goes, "Little bits of Bonnie everywhere." And I remember I was like, >> "I think that's something the boys like, not girls."

[00:03:37]>> And I'm pretty sure I was on like painkiller when I went in, so I was just like, "What the heck?" We just pulled up to the house and I am so excited to show you something. This is the first time I'm seeing it bloom. Joel, did you see these? I'm not sure why the leaves look so dry on the ends. I don't think they require a ton of water, which is good because it's like droughty.

[00:04:01]We've had no water and it's been extra hot. But I can't believe these are blooming. We've got some height on these. Those ones are even taller. We did a little running around after my appointment and did a bunch of errands.

[00:04:16]I wore this dress. I got it from Walmart.

[00:04:20]Look how dang cute that is. I think it is literally the perfect little Let me show you this side because that's important. This has kind of a thicker material, but not like a hot material. I don't know. It's really, really stretchy. It's just cute, let me tell you. It's just cute. I'm going to put it in the description for you. All the kids are eating because we are heading to Boston's band concert. What did you say?

[00:04:44]>> I said percussion.

[00:04:45]>> Percussion.

[00:04:47]Are we gonna go to a percussion concert?

[00:04:49]I think I have time to clean this spot before I go. The other day I came ac I like saw this out of the corner of my eye. Do you know how unlikely how unlike lady it is to have an accident like this? And unfortunately, I think it means she may have some bladder stuff going on again. Or maybe it was just a freak accident. I don't really know. But it's been here a while. It's dried. I've never cleaned a dried pea stain before, so we're going to give it a go. This makes me feel a type of way. I don't know. All right. Any OG followers from literally like eight years ago remember when I had new cream carpet in my old house? And I used this exact bottle. This bottle is the one that I used. And I cleaned the blood out of the carpet. And this is empty.

[00:05:44]There's some in there, but it doesn't come out of the spray bottle, so I need to once I've used a little bit of this, pour the rest in. Anyways, it's a whole thing. But this is finally gone. It lasted me years. It's the only thing I use on carpets, and it comes out so good. So, clean with me while I give you a very, very brief update. So, this is like super vague, but my there has been health changes in my dad. There has been health changes in Joel's mom and it has caused a lot of feelings. That was kind of the stress Joel was referring to earlier. Those are the kind of stresses that you don't it's out of your control, right? Like there's nothing you can do. A lot of times with relationships, there's nothing you can do. It just is what it is. I felt like I was handling those stresses really really well. But I could feel the the tension inside building up and that's why I've had this kind of outbreak. But luckily I had last time this happened I didn't have medication handy and this time I did. I take Valtrax. I can already feel that the sores in my mouth are starting to go away which last time it took several weeks. But I'm sitting here cleaning and it's hurting my hands. I when I talk and I use my tongue, it like for some reason my whole tongue is inflamed. I think that's it. I think that was my brief update. In real life, it doesn't feel so brief, right? Saying a one sentence thing just doesn't really do justice to the feelings that they bring on. But I like that this cleaner doesn't really have a scent. And notice how I don't like scrub the carpet because I don't want to f not fray maybe frizz out. I don't know. I don't want to disrupt the carpet fibers. I just want to soak up.

[00:07:41]So, I use the pressure from my hands.

[00:07:43]And then if this dries crusty, I can do it again with maybe water. But I think it's coming out extremely well. Yeah. I seriously thought I was handling my stress so well and then my whole body is combusting and I didn't even give you all of the details. You know what I mean? And it just makes me so upset. It makes me so upset with my body. I'm just like, "Come on, would you just function?

[00:08:08]Would you just work? Would you just get it together?"

[00:08:12]My brain is telling my body that I'm fine, but my body is telling my brain, "No, you're not." I have done some soularching. Okay, I'm going to do kind of a smell test to see if it smells LIKE CLEANER OR PEE AND IT STILL SMELLS LIKE PEE. OKAY, we are not done. I have done some major soulsearching because I don't I am not going to live a life where I just feel miserable all the time and I feel like I'm in this constant state of stress. And obviously there's things I'm not saying that are causing me some stress that I wish I could, but I just I have done a lot of soulsearching trying to think and change things that I can change so that I can feel true happiness so that I can feel like I used to look at people and be like, well, you you're causing your own stress. It's your choices that are making you feel stressed. like you need to control your life. And so I'm really trying to look inward and think, what am I doing? What can I change so that I can have some more inner peace and and not just say it, but actually mean it. And I feel like I've done so well. I just I've just had a couple setbacks. Gosh, it feels devastating when you feel like you've moved forward and then you just get knocked back. And it's just I'll tell you, it didn't it didn't put me in bed for a few days. It didn't put me in bed for a week. And so I know I've gotten a whole lot stronger. I just need to continue to get stronger is all.

[00:09:49]Okay, got the clip. Got Cody driving us around. This is kind of nice, Code.

[00:09:54]>> Yeah, I'm driving better.

[00:09:56]>> You are doing such a good job. And you are much more I don't want to say proactive or maybe it's cuz um Yes, that too. Maybe it's cuz Olivia didn't like driving with me, but anytime we go anywhere, Cody's like, I'm driving.

[00:10:11]>> Yeah.

[00:10:12]>> You know what? Fantastic. It's actually really nice having you drive. So, >> I like it a lot.

[00:10:18]>> You're doing a good job, too. And you ask Cody asks tons of questions.

[00:10:24]>> Make sure I'm doing it right. And it makes me feel good because he's always like, "I love the way your Suburban drives." I know. It's >> so nice.

[00:10:32]>> It definitely cruises that good.

[00:10:34]Especially when you're used to maybe driving Olivia's car or something. Have you driven hers very much?

[00:10:39]>> A few times.

[00:10:40]>> Few times.

[00:10:41]>> I like yours the best.

[00:10:42]>> But compared to even dad's truck, it Dad's truck is not like a smooth.

[00:10:48]It's a fine. It's nice.

[00:10:49]>> Smooth going. It's just like when you let off the gas and kind of just want to cruise, it like stops cuz of the Jake brake.

[00:10:56]>> Yeah, Cody, that was excellent parking.

[00:10:58]Good job.

[00:11:25]This is not the camera being blurry.

[00:11:27]There is the biggest windstorm outside.

[00:11:31]We're traveling home after the concert and it is just so dang foggy outside.

[00:11:39]It's not foggy. There was just a humongous dirt wind well windtorm and it's kicking up all the dirt out here.

[00:11:46]It looks like >> farmers have just like tilled their dirt.

[00:11:49]>> Yeah.

[00:11:50]>> Just tilled their dirt. So, >> there's a fresh layer of wind dirt.

[00:11:55]>> Yeah. Just really fun.

[00:11:56]>> And I'm nervous because Olivia went on a date tonight and so I left the front door unlocked.

[00:12:06]And I never leave the front door unlocked because if the wind blows super duper hard, it will blow the door open. and the cats will get inside.

[00:12:16]>> Well, worse. One time it blew dirt clear through our entire house, but it can shatter the the door. I love when the weather's like this. It's kind of scary, but like kind of cool. What am I hearing?

[00:12:31]>> The gooseies.

[00:12:32]>> The goose.

[00:12:33]>> I can hear them.

[00:12:35]>> Goose.

[00:12:36]>> I can hear them.

[00:12:37]>> Do you see your plants? Your plantalones?

[00:12:39]>> Yes. It's so exciting. He has done marvelous.

[00:12:45]>> Um, hey, will you run all that garbage out into the garbage cans real quick so it's not in the garage?

[00:12:49]>> Yeah.

[00:12:50]>> No, this is a compilation of the last few days. Listen, we've had a lot of baseball.

[00:12:56]>> Yeah.

[00:12:56]>> Am I supposed to turn it off?

[00:12:58]>> Yes.

[00:12:58]>> I mean, they can wait. No. Running out there to be