Had ankle surgery end of 08 for an injury I incurred in February 08.
Playing basketball and landed on another guy's foot. Complete tear of one ligament on the outside of my foot, and crushed the ligament on the inside of my foot.
The inside injury grew scar tissue that grew into the ankle joint itself. They had to take to it with something that resembled a cheese-grater to remove the excess scar tissue and get me walking properly again.
All good now, but one hell of a scar!
http://www.sheerimage.com.au/temp/ankle02.jpg
http://www.sheerimage.com.au/temp/IMG_0959.jpg
Hope you're back to your full knob-tweaking best soon Rick, however bent you are.
Dave
(BTW: if someone can tell my why my embed code just produces an <img> tag and doesn't actually embed my images in my post, I'd be grateful)