A screw loose, literally.

Nine months ago, back in July, Bryan hurt his knee playing a pick-up game of soccer. He went to the doctor who said that he would need surgery, at some point, to fix it. Since our wedding was at the beginning of September, B decided to wait to have the surgery so he wouldn't hobble down the aisle.

Skip ahead to the day after our wedding-- we were playing sand volleyball at Cannon Beach when B went up for spike, only to hyper-extend his knee in the process. We had to have him driven off the beach in the lifeguard truck.

So, Bryan basically tore the ACL ligament in his left knee completely out with the volleyball incident and he had surgery to repair it in October. It's been about six months of rehab (or "kneehab" as I call it) since then and B's knee feels pretty good.... except for that strange lump on the front of his knee near the incision..... oh, and it kind-of hurts there too. Back to the doctor and B finds out that the screw they placed in his knee is "loose." As in, "coming out." As in, "your tendon has grown over the screw and is irritated. We're going to have to go in and take it out."

B went in for his hardware removal surgery on Thursday. Everything went fine, he's doing great now. Below is a photo of him in the recovery room (that would be a graham cracker hanging from his mouth. I'm not sure he remembers me taking that photo), followed by some shots of his trophy.