A quick random post
Oct. 17th, 2008 10:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angelakI went to the knee doctor at UW Medical center yesterday.
It went well. The clinic was far better than a different one I went to in the beginning of my journey with this injury.
I am going back on Tuesday to get an ultrasound done. On a new machine that they are getting at the end of this week (like Today/Monday). He said he wanted me to be one of the first 12 people or so for them to use it on.
I am looking forward to working on a "plan" with this doctor because he actually took an amazing amount of time to just listen to my story. So very much that happened in a small visit, when previously it was so very little in a small visit.
He said it seems like a chronic patella tendinitis, that is aggravated most by my job.
(Suggesting that possibly my job does tend to have me doing all of the worst things a patella tendon could have done to it while trying to heal.)
And yet he understands that I have to have my job, so... we'll see what happens next week when I go back in and we see PICTURES of my knees. I can SEE it and compare it with him to what a normal knee looks like. To get a vision of what exactly is going on.
I feel better even though it does signal the notion of chronic injury...
My back WAS a chronic injury before. And now it is great. So maybe I can hang on to the dream and hope that I can one day wander around with ease and not even bat an eye about my knee. I took my mom with me so that I would not miss anything and for general moral support. That worked out well.
Then we came back to my house and had a 3 person packing party and some tea.
My living room is more packed. Now I can push onwards with packing tonight between Mel coming over and end of work day. Looks like if I want to go for a run I must do it on lunch...
Not only did he NOT tell me to stop running - he commended me for running every other day to ensure that rest time on the tendons. That means possibly this time around with healing it might be easier on my psyche. Because I am not happy if I am not running.
In good news, it felt tons better yesterday but he was able to find areas that DID hurt when he pushed on them. That was comforting. Stupid tendon. I AM excited about the fact that most likely, in a week we may be signing papers for an hour and possibly getting the keys to our new home very soon. It's all feeling more real.
-Angela
It went well. The clinic was far better than a different one I went to in the beginning of my journey with this injury.
I am going back on Tuesday to get an ultrasound done. On a new machine that they are getting at the end of this week (like Today/Monday). He said he wanted me to be one of the first 12 people or so for them to use it on.
I am looking forward to working on a "plan" with this doctor because he actually took an amazing amount of time to just listen to my story. So very much that happened in a small visit, when previously it was so very little in a small visit.
He said it seems like a chronic patella tendinitis, that is aggravated most by my job.
(Suggesting that possibly my job does tend to have me doing all of the worst things a patella tendon could have done to it while trying to heal.)
And yet he understands that I have to have my job, so... we'll see what happens next week when I go back in and we see PICTURES of my knees. I can SEE it and compare it with him to what a normal knee looks like. To get a vision of what exactly is going on.
I feel better even though it does signal the notion of chronic injury...
My back WAS a chronic injury before. And now it is great. So maybe I can hang on to the dream and hope that I can one day wander around with ease and not even bat an eye about my knee. I took my mom with me so that I would not miss anything and for general moral support. That worked out well.
Then we came back to my house and had a 3 person packing party and some tea.
My living room is more packed. Now I can push onwards with packing tonight between Mel coming over and end of work day. Looks like if I want to go for a run I must do it on lunch...
Not only did he NOT tell me to stop running - he commended me for running every other day to ensure that rest time on the tendons. That means possibly this time around with healing it might be easier on my psyche. Because I am not happy if I am not running.
In good news, it felt tons better yesterday but he was able to find areas that DID hurt when he pushed on them. That was comforting. Stupid tendon. I AM excited about the fact that most likely, in a week we may be signing papers for an hour and possibly getting the keys to our new home very soon. It's all feeling more real.
-Angela
