For any new reader(s): Last February I got hit by a car and broke my tibial plateau. You can read all about it here. I had surgery and months of physical therapy, but the shattered bone they put back together isn’t staying together. I can walk with a knee brace, but it hurts more and more week by week. Eventually, I’m probably going to need a knee replacement.

To try to forestall that, my surgeon wants to do something called an osteochondral allograft. He’ll remove the metal rod holding everything together in there, and then he’ll take a piece of cartilage and bone from a cadaver and replace the damaged area. The tissue has to be a perfect size match (as my surgeon says, if you’ve got a size 11 foot, you need a size 11 shoe), and it needs to be screened for diseases and such.

After a false start last month and weeks of not knowing when my next shot is, my doctor thinks he’s got a perfect match. It’s about 80% through the screening process and should be done early next week. If that’s all good, he wants to do the surgery on the 14th. I told him I can be there whenever he says, just give me a minute to grab my toothbrush.

So wish me luck. I’ve got a good feeling about this and I think it’s going to work out. All I want for Christmas is my two good knees.