An Update on the Knee Surgery

I had my surgery on Friday and all went well…I spent the weekend on the couch recovering, reading magazines, watching TV, visiting with friends and sleeping a lot. I’m doing really well and returned to work on Monday. I’m getting ready to leave work a little early today because I’m in more pain today but overall the process has been a great one. I’ll get my stitches out on Thursday and will hopefully be back on the treadmill on Friday!

Thanks so much to all my great friends who called, brought flowers, Diet Cokes, magazines, meals, etc. It’s been such a great help and really provided some support to Gary and the girls.

Gary was busy this weekend taking Anna Claire to birthday parties – tis the season! Many of her friends have spring birthdays, so she had a wonderful time attending parties and playing with her friends. Even Leah was able to go to the mall with Gary and Anna Claire on Saturday and she had a fabulous time running around (and running him ragged!).

Knee Update and Other Stuff

Well, I went to the dr yesterday and he could see it was still swollen from Sunday (for no apparent reason, my knee started to swell). He’s decided the best thing to do at this point is arthroscopic surgery to clean it out. He said I’ll be up and around in a few days after the surgery, so I’m going to try to schedule it for early April.

I’m excited we’re going to finally get this taken care of – the last thing I want to do is have to worry about it in the middle of our big move!

In other news, we had a great weekend. On Saturday morning, Gary and I went to a home buying seminar through our credit union. It was awesome and I’m very excited to move through the process of buying our first home now that I know a little more about what we’re doing! On Sunday, Gary and Anna Claire went to church while I stayed home with Leah and did laundry – over the weekend, I did a total of 14 loads of laundry – which I know isn’t terribly exciting but I am feeling so much less stressed and more caught up as a result. I also baked my famous oatmeal raisin cookies for my dad. Leah had her first sample of one of the cookies and LOVED it. Her Papa would be proud. :)

Two Steps Forward, One Big Step Back

So I decided to really focus on being healthier this year. I had torn the cartilidge in my knee in November and it took a long time to heal to the point that I could walk to exercise.

However, it did finally heal and I began walking on the treadmill and had increased up to the point that I was walking a little over 2 miles in 30 minutes. I was also sometimes doing a walking video at home and feeling good that I was making some progress. I'd even lost a few pounds!

Last week, I injured my knee again. Not really sure how, but it hurts in the same place and as a fun bonus, it hurts like crazy in NEW places too! (big dejected sigh). I'm so discouraged. And living in a townhouse isn't helping with all the stairs we have. I'm particularly frustrated because my dad had orthoscopic surgery last week to fix his knee problem, which is similar to mine, and he walked out with less pain than he'd had in the previous 9 months. I would love to have the same thing done, but my doctor isn't cooperating because my pain comes and goes - it's not cooperative enough to be consistent. I'm starting to feel like a hypochondriac and yet I know that something really is wrong.

Compared to 4 years ago when I had cancer and blood clots in my heart and lungs, this is no big deal. But it doesn't change the fact that I'm discouraged...

OK, I'm done whining. I'm off to a meeting.