I've been having knee pain and intermittent swelling since the day after Thanksgiving. Though no obvious, pinpoint, injury occurred, I am hypothesizing that I hut my knee either hula hooping on the Wii or in my step aerobics class. I think for my pride's sake, I'll go with the later explanation.
Anyway, I went in today so the surgeon could perform and arthroscopic debridement of my knee. Though I had no explicit tears, my MRI did show some plica (or junk as my physical therapist likes to call it) irritating my knee cap, which my surgeon would remove. The surgeon said that I might also have a ligament pulling my knee cap off center, and if that was the case he would have to perform a lateral release. I prayed and prayed that this would not be the case, but unfortunately, it was.
The recovery from a lateral release is much longer than a basic debridement. I'll be swollen and hobbling around (possibly on crutches) for 3-4 weeks and won't be completely healed for 3 months! And, it is apparently much more painful (though I'm sure the pain pills are skewing my perception of that at the moment!).
But, the silver lining on all of this is...
a) that the problem is fixed.
b) that the problem wasn't too serious.
c) that I'll be all healed for the wedding and the honeymoon!
d) that I got to spend more time with Jon and test drive his husband skills! (And don't worry, they're good!)
I'll be stuck in bed through Wednesday and will hopefully be back to work on Thursday!
1 comment:
I hope you heal nicely.
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