Thought I'd post what I have been visting w/others about today

Apr 17, 2009


I have had two spinal fusion surgeries and have a mess of metal in me there.  But my knees have always been just great, even packing around all this extra weight.  One, stupid little trip, seemingly pretty benign, and even seemed to heal in about one week, then morphed into severe recurring problems with the knee beyond belief.  I finally had an MRI done and found out that I have a severely torn medial collateral ligament and a moderately torn anterior cruciate ligament and a torn meniscus to boot.  Good grief!!  How can that happen and it not have stopped me dead in my tracks from the first moment?  I just don't know...

But...I think that my overweight body is the number one reason that this knee is just not mending well.  I am trying to avoid knee surgery and so hope and pray that losing weight will be a gift and a relief to my knee!  In the mean time I do physical therapy  regularly on my knee, doing my best to make my ham strings and quads strong enough to do the work of the ligaments that can no longer do their job!

If not...I'll be whining about knee surgery next...  I hope everyone here will be able to stand me whining more!

I often cannot stand hearing myself whining....but that doesn't seem to stop me!!!


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