Call me Gimpy

[pjthompson]

I hurt my knee...oh, about a month ago. (More, maybe, but I don't want to think about it.) I've been limping along, thinking it would get better, and it does, but then it gets worse again, then it gets better. Have I gone to the doctor? No, I'm an A-1 doctor-avoider, I am. Very dudelike.

Then Monday we had a fire alarm at work. I work on the third floor. I do not recommend walking down three flights of stairs with a bad knee. (Can't use the elevators in a fire alarm.) It turns out the fire alarm was caused by some asshat smoking a cigar in our smoke-free building, but that's another story.

Yesterday, the knee hurt quite a bit, but I was still hobbling along. This morning, however, when I crossed my leg to tie my shoe, something went ping! and ohmygod. I have to face the thing I've been running from: I need to go to the doctor.

Sitting at a desk is quite uncomfortable, so I left work half day and I can't spend much time at this desk, either, so if I'm not around much in the next few days you'll know why. I go to the doctor tomorrow. Long walk from the parking to the doc's office. That should be fun.

Oh well. It won't kill me, so it will only make me stronger, right? Except maybe my knee, of course.

Comments

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Ouch... That does not sound like a fun time at all..
But at least min will get plenty of lap time when the doc tells you to keep your leg up. :-)

[pjthompson]

She was a very happy kitty yesterday. :-)

[wldhrsjen3.livejournal.com]

Oh, no. I hope all goes well! Good luck! (And I don't blame you. I've had more than my fill of doctors. But, y'know, sometimes they really can help. :})

[pjthompson]

Yeah. She basically confirmed my own diagnosis, but at least it reassured me I was doing the right things.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

I hope that the fix is quick and non-painful and non-invasive!

[pjthompson]

She did mention an orthopedic surgeon for the long-term issues, but I view surgery as an absolute last resort. The short-term thing was a severe muscle strain, so I've been doing the right things for that.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Keep on doing them. Like the back, knees are not something you want to have problems with!

[pjthompson]

Definitely not. ::will be a good knee girl from now on::

[darkspires.livejournal.com]

Bad girl. You should have stopped hiding after a week. If it isn't getting better by then it is something that has to be 'looked at'.

Now you will probably have earned another two visit. So sorry and hope it gets better soon. Try a heat pad.

Hugs
Elizabeth.

[pjthompson]

Yep, I was doing all the right things--heat, aspirin, elevation, saying off of it. More of the same, sayeth the doc. It's better today.

[frigg.livejournal.com]

ping!

That gave me goosebumps. I hope everything goes well tomorrow.

[pjthompson]

In the short-term things are improving. I may have to go to an orthopedic guy for the more long-term thing, but I think of surgery as an absolute last resort.