Is It Advisable To Shift The Position Of Knee Cap?

I had a knee replacement of my left knee. During the surgery, something went wrong. the measurments done incorrectly , I possibly was moved and nothing done about it during surgery. I now have a left leg that is 2 1/4 inches longer than it was. This is causing my vertebra to esily get out of place and pinch my siatic nerve. causing such pain I can t walk until I have a chiropractor put things back together. The vertabra are so worn my back pops out at any time, and is extremely difficult to sleep at nigh. When the nerve is being pinched my leg won t support my weight. This involves the lower 5-6 vertabra. Lengthening my leg is causing lots of problems, of which my kneecap is now below where it is supposed to be and off to the left side. The kneecap is 45 degrees to the left when sitting down and looking at the top of the knee. It is in a position where it is constantly rubbing against other muscles tendons and nerves and is constantly changing signals to the brain causing it drop me without warning when I m trying to walk or even when I m standing completely still talking to someone. Quite often when taking a step, my foot comes down to take me in a direction other than I was intending to go, and allows me to trip over myself, or fall into a wall. Obviously for me walking is extremely difficult and painful. Now there is something going on on the left side of my knee that is causing constant pain as though something is rubbing it s way thru flesh in my knee. What is going on in there and is it repairable. I ve had a specialist looking at it and he is stunned with what has taken place and agrees that I ve been correct that all my pain is being generated by the kneecap. I am supposed to have the kneecap removed this coming Thursday. How or will this effect the prostetic knee? Will it stay together? will I be able to run? I haven t been able to run a single step in fourteen years. I m at the point that It is extremely painful for me to get up off the floor when kneeling down to do anything. The history on this knee is it was replaced by a local surgeon whom I knew and had faith in. It became infected and he would not admit it nor treat it for infection, but kept draining it, for two weeks or longer. I finally went for a second opinion. The Infectious Desease specialist that was at my operation said the knee was infected and that the doctor knew it. ( It was infected right in the Operating Room. ) Now the knee would have to come out and the site would have to be treated until the germs were all gone. I spent 7 weeks in a full leg cast with no knee and getting nurses coming to my home giving me two I.V.s twice a day until every thing was cleaned out. My leg was opened up again and a different surgeon put a new knee in. The knee kept coming dislodged and had to have a revision done where a thicker plastic Shim plate was put in. That revision failed also. The knee would dislodge and leave me hoping around on one knee in the middle of the street waiting for someone to come help me. Iwas so loose, we could easily reset it with no pain at all. This led to the third replacement being done at The Cleveland Clinic. That s how I got here. In total there were 9 surgeries and three total replacements and one revision done on this knee in less than 2 years. That was fourteen years ago, and no one has been willing to try to fix it. It s been me figuring out what is happening inside my leg that has had me pushing to get the patella removed. It has taken me two years to find a surgeon who would really investigate what is happening and agreeing my pain is coming from the patella being on the side of my knee and unable to be replaced on top of the knee. Thursday is getting close but I have no real information about what to expect my life is going to be like afterwards. I m facing back surgery because of this mess up, and I m also in dire need of replacing my left shoulder. Naturally I am terrified of any other Replacement surgery and reluctant to have anything done to my back because fusing my jints only leads to more operations and eventually I won t even be ablr to tie my own shoes. For 31 years I was a professional firefighter and ambulance crew member. tow years after retirement I was no longer able to walk because of my knee. I retired in 1996. Oh BTW For 3% of the people, Pain Meds mean nothing at all. They do nothing for us, not even aa tiny bit. I m definitely in the leading group of them. You can put any pain med (even Oxycontin) in me and it will have absolutely no effecf of any kind. I d just be better off with a jelly bean.... at least I d get some pleasure out of it. This has been a very long 14 years. What do you feel will be the results of removing the kneecap. Would you recommend any other approach? I m done with waiting and searching. Whatever is happening in my knee now is advancing very quickly. I NEED TO GET IT STOPPED BEFOR I CAN DO NOTHING AT ALL. Thank you