Bad Day

So two weeks ago friday I got into a car wreck, nothing too bad just a little fender bender. (Yes it was my fault)I was driving by the mall headed home and everyone was slamming on their brakes, I swirved into the middle lane to avoid the hit and I was too late, I hit the back left corner of the other car.

This past monday was another bad luck kind of day... It started off with me getting a ticket on the way to work (there was no way I was doing 49 in a 35, unfortunatly I didn't look down at my speed either, and the cop was on a motorcycle (they are always meaner) going the opposite direction and did a complete uturn to pull me over as I topped the hill - another reason why I was on the gas pedal, trying to get over a hill!)

Then at work the moved me from the call center to the welcome desk (which basically means instead of scheduleing patients I'll be checking them in for X-Ray's, Bone Density Scans, Cat, Scans, MRI's, and lab work) Well, I then messed up a Bone Density Scan Schedule. The patient went for lab work first which messed up the schedule for her Bone appointment and I got yelled at and their supervisor sent a note to my supervisor. Apparently Bone Scans are done on a 20 minute schedule and I messed it up for the rest of the day.

I decide it was about time to take a lunch break and breathe.

I go back to work and the day starts evening itself out, then I left early to go to my physical therapy appointment. Of course, I get the guy who doesn't help me at all. I end up doing everything alone while getting yelled at after I do almost the whole set that I am doing it wrong (because he was playing around on the other side of the place and not watching me.)

After that I am starving and mom has made food at Papa Jims's house well after I got done telling Papa Jim my storys for the day I walked around the table to sit down to eat and I knocked over a little peice of china that Lois let him borrow to put his pills into. I felt so bad, he told me "maybe I should've just stayed in bed all day"...

Man what a day!

Quick update...

I had my 6 week follow up last thursday and the doctor pretty much told me its a waiting game. If it starts swelling up all the time again to let him know and he will send me to SouthWest Hospital in Dallas. No one seems to know whats going on with my knee. It can be very frustrating. Luckily he doesnt think I need more therapy even though the therapist did! whew! That's a releif! So I guess now I'll just have to wait and see. (although I must say the pain is worse and in different places now.)

Therapy without a Therapist, Doctors appointment coming up

I have had my one month follow up for my physical therapy yesterday. My knee swelled up huge monday and tuesday and when i went wednesday to therapy they decided to let me skip my exercises and put these stem machine on it (its high voltage stem that is supposed to reduce pain and swelling, I used it for 20 minutes) they also put a huge ice pack over it while it works. I had no idea that yesterday was going to be my one month evaluation. I get there and I start with riding the bike for 10 minutes then he went and did all his measurements (which were quite painful i might add, and it was still a bit swollen) after that I had to do all my exercises then the stem machine with ice packs again for 20 minutes. My 1 hr therapy sessions turned into 2 hours yesterday. The verdict with my measurements...
(and i didn't get all of then, these are just what i heard him say aloud)

from the center of the knee cap up the thigh 4 inches and the circumfrence around the thigh (to measure the muscle):

left leg: 39
right leg: 48

also when they first measured around the middle of the knee a week after surgery it measured 36 and yesterday it measured 37... yup it was bigger than after surgery.

I go to the doc for my 6 week follow up next thursday the 23rd. The physical therapist said he was putting a note into the doctor that i need more therapy. (If they didn't try to handle 3 patients at a time and actually focused on one then I wouldn't have to do more (ecspecially since I am having to pay 125 or so each visit and I go three times a week) The past few times I have gotten so frustrated because they just seem to ignore me or not listen to what I feel like I need to work on... I go from one exercise to another by myself because they are so busy with other patients and then the therapist would come up to me and say "your doing those wrong" ugh then he should've been there to instruct me. Anyways, I am curious to see what will happen after this next visit, I sure don't want to go to more therapy or pay for more therapy for that matter.