Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Old Lady Knees

After oh about...15years!!!! I finally went to the knee specialist. I have had a cyst in the back of my knee for at least that long and thought that was the cause of all my knee troubles. I was thinking cut me open and take it out!!! My knees hurt that bad. Burning, giving out, swelling, sqeeky sponge bob sounds, not being able to bend them or unbend them without major pain, aching. Two rounds of PT Yeah I sound like an old lady. That's just one part of my body.

Well, the Dr. said the cyst is not the cause of my problems and to just leave it there. I guess I pretty much have no cartilage under my knee cap. nice.

Although, he said he was pretty confident with the cortisone shots and a prescription anti  inflammatory he thinks he can help the pain and I can do yoga and run again. That would be nice. 

I said well shoot em up!! So he did. I admit it did hurt, but I didn't blink an eye I was so hopeful.
I should have shown you how long that needle was! And where is all that going to go!
This was one of two.


I went grocery shopping on the way home. The longer we were there the slower I got...Hazel pushed the cart for me.

I just tried to keep walking and moving because I didn't want them to freeze up on me. We went on a walk, then walked to get the kids from school, cleaned blah blah. By 4pm I had to finally sit down and not move. I actually sat on the couch and watched Shrek with my kids, I don't do that, It's really hard for me to sit and watch a whole movie. Especially a cartoon.

(And by the way Shrek is really funny. But I do not think it is funny for my kids to watch it, no wonder no one has any manners! Half the time I see bits and pieces but not the whole thing. Bad words, completely crude. It's horrible all of that is in a kids movie. I on the other hand admit I did laugh. And then realized I didn't want my kids to see me laughing at that and only laughed in my head and made sure to tell them why it was not funny. I am a wonderful example, I should have turned it off. But my knees remember.)

I said "My Knees Hurt"!! and Hazel said "mom can you not say that during the movie"? I sat there for the whole movie. And then forced myself to get up and moving again, I can't say that it helped. They seriously hurt!!! It was still worth it because I have my heart set on this working. But I hope they stop hurting this bad really soon.

My kids thought I was so brave, they all hate shots, and two of them actually freak out and panic. So I took a picture of it. I can't say they were overly concerned about me though, they were more excited about what I may be able to do if it works. Me too!

Something about a small town - The first thing he said to me when he came in was "I enjoyed your testimony on Sunday" Ha, he is in my ward. He also knew Avary because he had taught her class. He spent more time talking with me about life than about Dr. stuff and wanted to know if I needed anything. People are so nice here, it is so refreshing. And he has a young daughter named Camille, it was all meant to be. Haha