Happy Monday: Broken nose and knee injury

[Catrin]

MRI in a couple of hours, should have the results by Friday morning at the latest.

It really is very strange. While it IS working better, and there is much less pain and swelling, I still get sharp pains in the knee. Mechanically speaking, I no longer have to hop downstairs like I did, but it is apparent that my knee isn't operating like the other one. As the day progresses I get more discomfort - and LOTS of numbness in my calf/IT Band, down the outside of my lower leg in the afternoon when in the office. While I HAVE stopped going to my KB group until I get the results (it felt too much like playing with fire), I did some very light work last night at home and yeah, there were issues. Really hoping that this is something that doesn't require surgery and they tell me that I can still workout...this forced inactivity is about to drive me up the wall.

Send me good thoughts and prayers that this is "just" something like internal bruising

[Pax]

Good thoughts headed your way for a positive result!

[OakLeaf]

Good luck Catrin.

[Helene2013]

Good luck Catrin and hoping for a "not-so-bad" result, knowing there is something going on with that! argggg.

[Catrin]

Talk about a comedy of errors today! 15 minutes before I was due to leave home to go get the MRI taken, my phone rang. The MRI had broken down and they didn't know when it would be ready to work...and my follow up appointment with my workman's comp dr to determine if I need an Ortho consult was less than 48 hours away. Thankfully I WAS able to connect with the right people and we were able to get me into another location this afternoon.

My MRI tech asked me what I hoped would come out of this. At first I sad - to not have to have surgery - but that wasn't my final answer. My real goal for this is to have my knee work properly again, hopefully that won't require surgery but if it does, then, it does. They gave me a DVD with my images, and of course I've already looked at them. I've NO idea what I am looking at, which is probably a good thing. They will mail me the report, but of course I won't see that before Friday. Probably a good thing so I won't waste time at work consulting "Dr Google" trying to figure out what the report actually MEANS!