I Think It Has Happened Again

May 31, 2002

Hi All,

Well, I think I may have broken or cracked my knee cap again for further this

evening. Once again, it happened while using the commode. The pain started

to feel like a shard of glass again in the exact same spot. I remember that

after the surgery he told me that the fracture was still there, he just filed

down the edges and made sure that that area was not touching anything to

cause any pain. On my first post op visit, I told him that he fixed whatever

was wrong there from the fracture as there was NO pain at all. He was really

happy to hear this because he wasn't sure that he had shave enough bone off

to take care of the pain as he was kinda working blindly as I did not want to

be cut. He also said that when he did the shaving of the bone, it was done

with the arthroscope and therefore the picture was distorted due to the fluid

that is injected during the procedure. He said that he would have had an

entirely different picture if he had look straight on to it as opposed thru

the fluid. The only pain that I was experiencing was from the lateral release

that he did so that this would (or should) not happen again. For three

blissful weeks, I had no shard of glass pain in that right knee and now this

evening.....wham! I started screaming again and the pain is searing. Ron

says that we should go to the ER for an x-ray, heck, I don't even know how I

can tell the ortho that this has happened again. My theory is just to live

with it seeing how it isn't a malignant condition. I am more embarrassed

than everything. I took some pain pills and they have done nothing for this

new pain. I just can't believe it!!!!!!!

On another note, I posted my situation with these blood tests to another site

that I belong to and was told that these scopes never show anything and all

they end up doing is giving you more iron anyway. My point is, these scopes

are not very pleasant and if they never disclose any real information, why

bother and go thru the hassle. Plus it doesn't really change your course of

treatment. I think I will just leave things the way they are.

Well, it will be a busy Friday.....my youngest, goes on a school trip

to Islands of Adventure, leaving at 5:30 am and not returning until 10:00 pm;

and then for some reason I slept all day today, so I need to go to the rheumy

office and get my prescriptions and do a lot of little piddly jobs. Ron is

on deadline so he will be buried at work and then in the evening we are

supposed to go out for dinner with our very very dear friends. Still making

Ron finish that backyard project. He is almost there and should be completed

this weekend.

Hope everyone has a great evening, restful and pain free sleep.

Gentle, tender, angel hugs,

Debs in FL

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