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In the spirit of the upcoming olympic games, I decided that was a funny title. Not to mention that yesterday I was so bored that I was actually watching olympic tryouts. Once, way, way back in the day, I was offered an opportunity to try out. I declined. I was too far out of practice and my knees were getting really bad, as was the style at the time.
Anyways.
We took 4 x-rays of my knee and did a little poking and prodding. The diagnosis is as stands, dislocated knee cap. Fortunately, nothing was broken(this is the good-news portion of this entry, FYI), and there's no sign that arthritis has moved into my knee. I'll have 3 or 4 weeks of therapy coming up to get my knee back into fighting shape. (here's the bad news portion of the entry) Sadly, I was told that the operation I had on my knee some 11 years ago has failed. This is not a surprise, it was expected, but I wanted to come to that on my own terms, not be told right out, after having my knee checked out for something else.
My options are to try more therapy, something we tried 12 years ago, to see if we can get my knee back. Otherwise, I'm going to the surgeons for my options. There is one surgery that involves moving my tibia over. This is most likely what's going to happen. I don't know. We'll see what happens in 4 weeks.
In the meantime, don't worry about me. I actually am ok.
Thanks for the well-wishes, though. It does help.
6 Comments:
Ouch : (
So how much pain is involved? Time off of work?
what sport were you invited to try out for at the olympics?
The pain is manageable. We'll see what the surgeons say, but the options she had in mind didn't sound too appealing. Things about moving tibias and the like.
And, to answer the age-old question as to what sport Dave was invited to try out for?
Fencing. Believe it or not, but Logan's Dave was a somewhat prominent HS fencer, and was invited to compete in one of the tournaments to qualify. I declined, because was 3 months out of practice and too busy with my summer job. Not to mention that this was before even my first knee surgery, even before they had properly diagnosed the problem.
Yes, my geekdom reaches far and wide.
Embrace your inner geek! :)
And ow. Best wishes.
i just saw some report on 60 minutes or some other newsmagazine show about an inner-city group taking over fencing...so now it's a 'street' sport which means you are cool.
My friend called me to tell me it was on. I watched intently.
We had a couple teams from "inner-city" schools(it would be appropriate to note that in the Twin Cities, inner-city isn't the same as, well, Chicago, New York, or LA's inner-city schools), and they were pretty good, but that was years ago.
I had no idea it had gained so much popularity.
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