Just wanted to say thank you to everyone for all their kind words and thoughtfulness over these last few weeks. This whole process has been pretty hard on me, but each day has a little more ease.
Thanks again!!
Monday, June 22, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Update
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
Knee Update
So I went to my orthopedic doctor this morning and thought that I would give all of you the update of what I found out. First of all it was a VERY early morning! Lol. It was in Park City at 8 am! Which takes an hour to get to the office. Had to share that.
So the big news is that my meniscus is torn. Jerry, who originally looked at it, thought that it was my MCL that was torn. Today Dr Cooley said that there is a good possibility that was torn too but my meniscus is also torn. The MCL acutally heals itself, and it is possible for the meniscus to heal on its own but in my case it is somewhat unlikely so odds are I will have to have it surgically fixed. Again.
As it stands right now I have a follow up with him in 3 weeks to decide on whether or not I will need surgery and in the meantime I am supposed to do everything in a striaght line to put the least amount of strain on the meniscus ( which I already have been doing). At the end of 3 weeks if it is not better then I will be getting an MRI and most likely surgery. However, at this point I am leaning towards getting the MRI now (which he told me was my decision and I opted to wait earlier). To me it seems silly to put off what will mostly likely come. I would like to somewhat enjoy my summer vacation and with these knee problems dragging along I will not be able to.
Unfortunately, this also means that Troy and my summer vacation will probably have to be postponed. We are supposed to be coming down in a month, but if I have to have surgery then it will have to be postponed to August or late July if we are lucky.
So that is my fabulously exciting news, how is everyone else doing?
So the big news is that my meniscus is torn. Jerry, who originally looked at it, thought that it was my MCL that was torn. Today Dr Cooley said that there is a good possibility that was torn too but my meniscus is also torn. The MCL acutally heals itself, and it is possible for the meniscus to heal on its own but in my case it is somewhat unlikely so odds are I will have to have it surgically fixed. Again.
As it stands right now I have a follow up with him in 3 weeks to decide on whether or not I will need surgery and in the meantime I am supposed to do everything in a striaght line to put the least amount of strain on the meniscus ( which I already have been doing). At the end of 3 weeks if it is not better then I will be getting an MRI and most likely surgery. However, at this point I am leaning towards getting the MRI now (which he told me was my decision and I opted to wait earlier). To me it seems silly to put off what will mostly likely come. I would like to somewhat enjoy my summer vacation and with these knee problems dragging along I will not be able to.
Unfortunately, this also means that Troy and my summer vacation will probably have to be postponed. We are supposed to be coming down in a month, but if I have to have surgery then it will have to be postponed to August or late July if we are lucky.
So that is my fabulously exciting news, how is everyone else doing?
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