Wednesday, October, 22 @ approximately 8:30 a.m. I had an arthroscopy done on my left knee.
Sometime this last June while visiting a lovely park with my kids and some friends of ours, I had an accident and literally heard my knee "POP". It hurt so bad and I was so embarrassed as to how I hurt it, that I quickly sat back down and proceeded to pretend as though I was still getting my bag put together so that we could all move into the shade. After 3 attempts at standing up and failing, I knew something was wrong with my knee.
I managed to hobble over to the shaded knoll where the others had taken their blankets,bags, towels & goodies unnoticed by others that my knee was in excruciating pain. I quickly fell back down and tried to keep my kids rounded up as to not go too far(I knew I couldn't help them if they needed it.) We stayed a bit longer and I was glad to be going home when we did.
Days went by and my knee just wasn't the same. I couldn't bend it like I used to. I couldn't run like I wanted to. I couldn't play with the kids like I had done before, so it was time to see the doctor(This is a whole other story in itself that I won't get into).
I went to the Slocum center and Dr. Straub ordered an MRI on my knee and the results came back not so reassuring. I needed a little surgery to fix what I had done. This was no surprise to me however.
I am glad to have doctors who know what they are doing. My knee was very sore for a while with the fluid surrounding my patella, but it is getting better daily!
Sorry about the blood for those of you who are faint at heart. The chunk that you see at the bottom, right corner of the internal knee pictures was supposedly what was causing the pain.
