BAH! Looking forward to drugs.

Well... today has been an interesting day... For those of you who don't know what I did to my knee in November of last year, I was jumping over a fence and tore my ACL, (anterior cruciate ligament), which caused me to fall to the ground, my knee swell up, and I was on crutches for two weeks, a brace for a lot longer, and a ton of pain. In January I was running across a parking lot and my foot slipped and my knee went out because of the ligament not being there and bones moved and again... crutches, brace... blah blah blah. SO! Yesterday, going down a waterslide with my niece Kelsey who was terrified of the waterslide, I got to the bottom and in an effort to keep her from going under, I tried to land directly on my feet. Well, we were going kind of fast for this and my knee went out... again. Many bones exchanged places in my knee for a second and it swelled and I was left in the pool with a 4-year old clinging to me while I tried not to let her or myself drown but I wanted to die because of the excruciating pain... Good times. So, I stayed in the pool with my nieces because I don't see them that often and because it was cool water that I guess kept the swelling down a bit, and the water took the weight off. However, getting out of the pool caused it to balloon like a pumpkin and I haven't been able to put weight on it since... So I'm back to crutches again and it's huge and painful. (I'm getting drugs tonight.... good ones!!) Well, that's my story.

It makes doing any normal chore the hardest thing in the world. And, because I'm using crutches, my sweater is rubbing against the sunburn on my shoulders... all in all, it's one of the days I wished I could stay home for. Yup... good times. I made a ton of noise in the bathroom while trying to get into the tiny stall because my crutches and myself seemed to hit every loud metal object in there. Best part was there was another lady in there so I hope she atleast cracked a smile.

What's the diagnosis on my knee?? I have an MRI scheduled for sometime in September and then we'll talk about knee surgery. Because it keeps happening in various degrees of seriousness, this being the 3rd really serious time it's gone out, I might have to get the surgery... but we'll see what happens... I'm so glad it's 40 million degrees outside too because I have to wear a long enough shirt to keep from flashing everyone while hobbling along on my crutches, but the only thing I had that's long is black so I try to stay out of the sun as much as possible. I'll keep ya posted.