So for the past 3 weeks, after running, my right knee has felt, for lack of a better word, sloppy. It feels like at anytime it could fall apart.
It is stiff and I feel a ton of pain when climbing steps or biking...my first thought was I must have tweaked it a little bit when I got leveled reffing hockey a few weeks ago, and the pain will pass.
It hasn't.
I had a buddy of mine who is a PT guy look at it 2 weeks ago and he said there was a lot of movement on my ACL, but nothing felt real bad to him.
So I let it roll, cause I'm a dude, right?
Well, when your knee is in pain while sitting down, you start to question your "dudeness", and "mama's boy" starts to kick in. I broke down and went to an orthopedic specialist on Tuesday...Wednesday morning I was inside a tiny tube getting an MRI on my knee to see what my ACL was doing.
I'm still waiting to hear the results of the MRI...
The doc told me the ACL is not tore, but if left alone it could develop into "junk you don't want"...that's how he put it. They must teach you that at Med School.
So for the last 48 hours all I can think about is, great I'll probably have to get my knee scoped, right before wakeboard, soccer, golf, mountain bike and climbing season, not to mention all the work around the house we have planned.
If he tells me I need surgery, I'll make him do it that instant...I've been waiting for summer to roll around again since it ended early in August last year, and I can't fathom not being able to go all-out doing whatever, because my knee won't keep up.
I sound like a whiner today, a bed-wetting mama's boy, I guess I am.
For 34 years, my body has been pretty healthy...a few jacked up ribs, jaw, chipped bones in my elbows, crooked nose, broke little toe...dislocated shoulder which keeps me out of softball, but I can live with that. I understand I'm getting old, but I am trying to do it better than most guys my age. I dropped 26 pounds since last March. (I could drop another 20)
I think it's my fault, I always used to say, I have never had knee problems, back problems and only sprained my ankle one time. Now the knee thing is going to be taken out of the list.
I'm getting old.
3 comments:
Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, at 34 you have MORE aches and pains AHEAD of you than you have had behind you. You may not be on top of the mountain yet, but let me tell you that you are at least 1/2th of the way there. DO NOT let those Drs. talk you into something you do not want to do. They make there living taking money from you. One year ago I had a "full thickness tear involving the posterior horn of the medial meniscus", that is what the report said after an MRI of the right knee. After a month waiting to see an Orthopod he checked it over and said, "If it were me I would not do anything. Unless it hampers you from doing what you want to do when you want to do it, leave it alone. You can always call me and I will scope it then". I did not do anything and I think I am just fine,(but don't ask Sharon, she will tell you someting else, I think she would like to see me in PAIN). Every once in a while it will rile up, but you have NO guarantee that surgery will fix it, as the Doc said there is always a risk with any surgery. GOOD LUCK
PS. Are you sure that you are not just "faking" this so Uncle Skipper feels sorry for you and comes back and finishes your project for you?
Yo Tom...I'm turning 37 this year and I don't feel old...my kids won't let me. I might forget where I left some things but that is, most of the time, from my ambitious daughter relocating things.
hey tom old boy if you have it done i can come up again and help you out. i don't know whats going on with me being so helpful and nice hope it don't last to long. but the hugs from steph helps. by the way this old boy turns 66. skip
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