A Bum Knee

Isn't it sad when you are injured and you don't even know how you did it? As many of you know, I'm not really an athlete...don't get me wrong...I love to play and run around but I have never participated on an athletic team (ex. the cheerleading squad, which many people don't think are athletes, but that's another blog entry in itself). Anywho, about a month ago my left knee started hurting when I would bend. When I went to Charlotte, my friend Mandy (the soon to be PA) looked at and told me some fancy word and that I just need to take some motrin for a while. So I did but the pain continued and has progressively gotten worse. Now as I walk it will catch funny and send severe pain up my leg. It's the craziest thing because I have no clue how it happpened but now I have a swollen knee and lots of pain.

I don't really care to go to the doctor's so I put it off for a while but finally went to see my family doctor and he couldn't tell so he told me to go see an orthopedist which I saw today. He says he is kind of puzzled b/c some of the symptoms say I have patella tendonitis but the swelling is atypical for this diagnosis. So now it's off to yet another specialist for an MRI b/c I could have torn cartilage behind the patella. Needless to say, I am less than excited to have to make yet another appointment to find out what is wrong. Meanwhile, he gave me stretches to do and an oh so lovely knee brace. I mean now I really look the part of the injured athlete...maybe I can fool everyone. :)