This Friday (3 October 2025) I’ll be having surgery on my right knee to correct an unstable kneecap that has troubled me since I was 11. It turns out that my kneecaps are still about 20mm too high, even after bringing them down when I was a teenager. My legs aren’t straight, giving me knock knees, my tibias are rotated, so my feet point outwards, and I have a bunch of ligament damage from multiple dislocations. The surgery to fix this is complex, and I’m grateful to be having it. I’m ...