Another visit to the men in white coats

Saturday morning I played tennis for the first time in many, many months. It was fun, I stopped hard and pushed off my right leg a couple of times. It hurt, but not too bad.

Sunday my right knee locked solid, could not bend it with out a lot of pain. Yesterday was a little better, I could drive (appreciated owning an automatic like never before) and hobble around at work. At the walk-in doctor they gave me some good pain killers and told me to make an appointment with my doctor.

At work this got me an inside-the-gate parking pass for a few days, so something good came out of it.

Went out last night and things were a little better. No shooting pain, but I could not put too much weight on it, getting up from a seat was painful and again driving an auto was appreciated.

Today was appointment day, they did an MRI this afternoon and found a bone fragment that’s made a small tear in my cartilage. Awesome, not a surprise as there was clearly something wrong. I’m happy we know what’s wrong, now it’s time to get it fixed.

Thirty minutes later my knee is propped up on a pile of towels and it’s been shaved in preparation for going in and getting the fragment before it does any more damage. It’s been a long time since I’ve had a hairless kneecap; it feels rather strange in the gentlest breeze.

A friend told me it needs a smiley face on my bald kneecap… Perhaps it will take my mind off the pain.