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I guess i'm officially middle aged
Feb. 27th, 2023 03:11 pmJanuary 2, 2023. A nice day out, if you can ignore global warming. Delicious is out in the woods behind our house, pondering a workshop. I decide to go out, because I love wandering in the woods, and for once the ground is dry enough to do it.
We walk through the property and get to the little stream that meanders all over the place. There's no good way to cross it, so Delicious jumps over, and then I do.
POP.
Something in my left knee finally gives up the ghost. And for the first time in my life, my body won't do what I ask of it. I tried. I can't walk. Not just that it hurts, but any attempt to put any weight on it and I collapse. And we're out in the country in the woods. And it's really kind of wet out. Could I crawl 200, 300 feet back to the house?
We try to get home. Delicious with his arm around my waist, me with my hand on his shoulder. Nope.
"Wait here," he says, propping me up against a tree.
About ten minutes later, I hear him. He's got the ATV he just bought, and he's riding to my rescue. I hear a saw. I see a flash. There's my husband on his ATV, wearing his lumberjack protective gear--bright orange helmet, with built-in ear protection and a visor. I've managed, in the meantime, to get close to the stream again. He helps me across, and those three feet are all I can manage. We scoot me onto the back of the ATV and I clutch the chain saw with one hand and my husband with the other. We drive back through the route that he had cleared and up to the front porch.
***
So yeah. We were half-way to the urgent care place when we realized, there really wasn't anything they'd be able to do for me. Instead, we got a brace and crutches. I called the local sports medicine place the next day and made an appointment. Probably a torn meniscus, said they. But whatever they did to manipulate the joint made it feel so much better. The doc has a very special MRI he likes to have, so getting into a machine took a while.
Complex medial meniscus tear. Surgery on 10 April, because I've got to go to Rome for work in March. 4 weeks on crutches. Rehab will take a total of 14-16 weeks and starts the day after surgery.
We walk through the property and get to the little stream that meanders all over the place. There's no good way to cross it, so Delicious jumps over, and then I do.
POP.
Something in my left knee finally gives up the ghost. And for the first time in my life, my body won't do what I ask of it. I tried. I can't walk. Not just that it hurts, but any attempt to put any weight on it and I collapse. And we're out in the country in the woods. And it's really kind of wet out. Could I crawl 200, 300 feet back to the house?
We try to get home. Delicious with his arm around my waist, me with my hand on his shoulder. Nope.
"Wait here," he says, propping me up against a tree.
About ten minutes later, I hear him. He's got the ATV he just bought, and he's riding to my rescue. I hear a saw. I see a flash. There's my husband on his ATV, wearing his lumberjack protective gear--bright orange helmet, with built-in ear protection and a visor. I've managed, in the meantime, to get close to the stream again. He helps me across, and those three feet are all I can manage. We scoot me onto the back of the ATV and I clutch the chain saw with one hand and my husband with the other. We drive back through the route that he had cleared and up to the front porch.
***
So yeah. We were half-way to the urgent care place when we realized, there really wasn't anything they'd be able to do for me. Instead, we got a brace and crutches. I called the local sports medicine place the next day and made an appointment. Probably a torn meniscus, said they. But whatever they did to manipulate the joint made it feel so much better. The doc has a very special MRI he likes to have, so getting into a machine took a while.
Complex medial meniscus tear. Surgery on 10 April, because I've got to go to Rome for work in March. 4 weeks on crutches. Rehab will take a total of 14-16 weeks and starts the day after surgery.