School and Knee update

I had my first Drugs and health test last wednesday, I made an 88 (It was open book!) This week I have 2 tests in Biomechanics and Motor Development. The biomechanics class is just a little tough for me since it involves trigonometry and physics and i've taken neither. One question on our homework was "A swimmer dives off a board 10 meters from the water, what is her speed when she hits the water?" WHAT????? So lost. Last week we went out to University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler (UTHSC) and got DEXA testing (looks at body fat percentage) in radiology. I am kinda anxious to see what the analysis results were. The test for Motor development involves about 25 questions (ok its not that easy, there are about 4 questions in each of those!)Then her tests are fill in the blank only, no multiple choice or anything so you really have to know the material. Ive got a long week ahead. Plus Ive got my other two test next week! Drugs and Health we have an Essay due that counts as much as a test and in Sports Nutrition we have a test over 1/2 the book! and there are only 2 test the whole semester so it'll count for 50 % agh!

My knee has swelled up 3 times or four since the surgery. It has died off though and hasn't swollen in maybe a month?! I was ready to go to the Dallas Dr he was gonna send me to after the first 2 times it swelled after the surgery but thankfully I waited so far. It still hurts all the time, but oh well as least its not swelling too.

Will is going to be out of town alot these next two months, this weekend he went down to college station with his guys to watch a A&M football game, and go out at night. Next month I think he is going back down there for Halloween. Then he will go to Vegas for 4 days with all the GM's from the Carinos co. And as soon as he gets back from that he will be going to Hawaii for 10 days!!! Lucky! His dad's girlfriends daughter is getting married. So we are both going to be very busy. Well me trying to study and probably going to try to avoid studying, and him off to college station, vegas, and hawaii! man, i think ill trade with him! lol

Wish me luck this week with my tests! Ill need it!

School Started!

So I finally got my car fixed! It only took four days and I got it detailed, carpet shampooed, dusted, washed, even the tires weren't black anymore! Nice to have it back I didn't realize how much I missed it while bumming rides.

School Started back this past Wednesday, I have to say my classes aren't easy. I am trying to get head... well just not get behind but it's already started, I am doing this avoiding my homework and reading. Wish me luck this semester!

My Classes:
- Biomechanics and Anatomical Kinesiology
- Motor development
- Nutrition (they wouldn't accept the one from TJC)
- Drugs and Health (pretty much the same as the Pharmacology class in nursing school, same book and everything)

Wish me luck!

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.

Update on knee surgery and the results...

I had my surgery on Friday June 12, It was just a knee scope (Arthroscope). I have recovered really well so far. I was off my crutches a week after the surgery and am now walking pretty normal! I have had 3 physical therapy sessions so far and will continue 3 times a week for 4 weeks. My next Dr. appointment is July 23. I just saw the Dr. yesterday for my post surgery follow up and as always the biospy he did showed everything to be normal...he did say I have the knee of a 70 year old and a ton of Arthritis! I have severe cartilage damage and loss throughout my knee; bilateral. If there has been no change and me knee stars swelling up again (since they still don't know the reason that it does that) he will send me to another specialist in Dallas and eventually I will need a total knee replacement. He did say that for some people just a scope and shaving off the damaged cartilage will fix there pain and swelling for years but considering thisis my second scope and that I have been having this problem for 9 years (since 1998) I am not very hopeful. Here are a few pictures of my recovery:



the unavailing of my knee 5 days after surgery on wednesday



my feet were swollen for 3 days after the surgery

Surgery

I will be having knee surgery June 12. The doctor does not know what is wrong with my knee, but will fix the meniscus tear and biospy some tissue and also look at how much arthritis damage I have. Will update more soon.

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