Surgery
I thought that I might finally update this dear journal of mine just to get some thoughts out of my head (and to make a certain someone *stares pointedly* happy).
I suppose that I'm a bit nervous of my surgery tomorrow, I'm getting my knee finally operated on after a knee injury about 3yrs ago.
I injured my knee during a soccer game, I was going to intercept the ball from a girl on the other team, so I went to slide-tackle the ball from her, but unknowingly another girl from the opposing team saw my move coming and decided to slide-tackle the ball form me as well. This all would have been fine and dandy except for the fact that I was still on the ground when the girl who was going to steal the ball from me from behind instead tripped on a divet in the field and then proceeded to fall on top of my thigh, of which the rest of my leg was up under. Now normally I take a hit and keep on rolling b/c I have a high tolerance for pain, but this injury did not permit my normal get-up of just running it off, block the pain out , or whatever. I stayed on the ground this time. It was weird b/c I could hear everything and nothing at all at the same time as I lay there on the ground. I could hear my mom and a guy thats like a 2nd dad to me talking about how I wasn't getting up. I could here the ball still in play for a min or so until the ref took notice that I was still on the ground. I could hear my friend on my team already coming over to check on me. Then all of a sudden everything went sort of silent, I guess thats when the pain sorta really started to kick in. I finally was helped off the field sat on the bench for the rest of the game with a ice pack on my knee.
When I got home I wrapped it with an ace bandage and some more ice till I could go to get it checked out in the morning. The next morning when I woke up my knee had turned blue and was HUGE, it was twice the size as normaI. My mom took me to the emergency room where we waited for about 6hrs I think b/c there had been a car accident. By the time I was seen it had grown even bigger they took an x-ray of it I hadn't broken anything or fractured anything so they wrapped it put this stiff-ass brace on it and told me to keep it elevated. Later I was sent to have an MRI done but all they couldn't see what wrong with it as it was now locking and having to be JERKED back into place. 2yrs later my knee has gotten worse they send me to a 2nd MRI still can't find exactly what is wrong with it. Still trying to do home therapy b/c couldn't afford the proper one. Another yr later I can't even walk through the first couple aisles of Wal-Mart until my knee acts up and I'm having to lay on the floor for my mom to jerk it back into place with ppl staring. Finally my orthopedic comes to the conclusion that something in my knee isn't right and that they need to get a better look inside my knee Henceforth I have surgery at 7am today with pre-op at 6am. Hopefully I should be able to walk out but if they find anything then I'll be going out with crutches. They prescribed a good pain med though so hopefully I won't be feeling anything too badly. But I think I need to lay down for a bit if the docs don't want to encounter a very grumpy person tomorrow as I know I'll be anyway since I don't like waking up early.
So I think I should bid goodnight to you all my dear friends and maybe I'll update when I get home later today as it is now 2am here.
( Hey Deccy, I updated just for you!!! ^_^ )