Ooooowwww....;_;
Well, I got some bad news on Monday. Saturday morning, at the FTX, I was crossing an obstacle using a pole as part of an ROTC training exercise. Well, a friend who was also crossing the obstacle, shook the pole a bit by accident, but it was enough to cause me to lose my balance and fall approx. 3 feet from the pole, landing on my kneecap on the thin side of a two by four. I didn't think anything was terribly wrong at first, and so continued my normal activites. Well, on Sunday, I could barely move my knee, and the bruising appeared worse than before. After some cajoling from friends and family members, I went to the doctor on Monday, only to discover that I have fractured my kneecap in two places. I was told to bandage it up and try to keep it straight, and to be very, very careful for the next 2 weeks.
Well, 2 weeks is not a long time, and I was concerned that perhaps something more needed to be done, so I asked for a referral to go see the orthopedic doctor who helped me with my ankle last semester. I'll go to see him tomorrow afternoon. I didn't get any pain medication from the doctor, so my knee hurts constantly. Walking around to classes has been killer, and I'm so frustrated that after working so hard to come back from my ankle injury, all the work I did getting back into shape for ROTC has now gone down the proverbial crapper. =_=
I'll likely be out of commission for 8 weeks...life sucks sometimes, huh?