November 26, 1998 - Hubby was driving us in our little Ford Festiva to a mortgage company so we could get pre-approved for a loan when a giant Lincoln Town Car turned right in front of us and we T-boned them going 35 MPH. My seatbelt broke and I flew into the windshield...did you know that windshields have tiny little bubbles in them? Well, trust me, they do. I cracked my left knee on the radio and it swelled up bigger than a grapefruit and it HURT!!!! I couldn't walk on it for 6 months...The "nice" old lady in the other car said "Well. I'm glad it was YOU that got hurt and not me."
Finally, after gaining close to 50 pounds (this is where it started) and crying myself to sleep and taking pain pill after pain pill after pain pill, the orthopedic doctor did surgery and took some tissue out and the swelling started going down.
Come to find out, I have Chrondomalaysia...softening of the underside of my kneecap. The doctor that the lawyers hired for a second opinion showed the lawyer just how that worked. I'm sitting on the exam table and he says "Does this hurt?" and he pushes on my left knee cap and I about go thru the ROOF with pain. Seriously...I want to punch him it hurts so much. My fist actually formed at my side as an instictive response. The lawyer goes "Wow." The doc says, "Yeah...now watch." I'm super nervous now...He does the exact same thing to my uninjured right knee. Nothing. It didn't even tickle. I just looked at him. The lawyer's eyes light up. This was all AFTER my surgery.
Anyway...this was history because yesterday? I was given a second reason as to why I didn't do that 5K. About 2 hours after I got up, my knee started hurting...almost as much as it did way back then. I was a little worried. It hasn't hurt like that in a LOOONG time. It came in waves, which was good, because if it had hurt consistantly, I would have had to take a pain pill and to have to take one for my knee.....
Luckily, I have pain pills...the good ones. I have fibromyalgia. That's not a good thing. It sucks. The good part is that since my surgery in Feb 2004 to remove my gallbladder (I'll write about that another day) the severity of my fibro seems to have diminished. These days, I have a flare once or twice a month, depending on the weather...and they last one or two days. Sometimes I don't even need to take a pain pill, they are so mild. I haven't missed work from a flare in months... http://fmaware.org/
So, today was a little down memory lane. It was the end of Daylight Savings Time...did you remember to set your clocks back? It's always weird for me the first couple days. I know what's going on, but the extra light always freaks me out. I always feel like I'm late.
It's COLD outside today...in Florida. (Remember...thin blooded Floridian here) The Internet News says it's 60, but I don't believe it's that warm...and even that's not very warm!! BRRRRRRR. If you recall...coldness is the reason I joined the gym, so...I didn't walk this morning. I doubt I'll find time to get over to the gym today...with church and breakfast and healing service and Disciple and possibly the gory stories of the Bible party...and it being Sunday, the gym closes early anyway. I think I'll look at going over there right after work tomorrow. I can make it be on the way home, so maybe I'll just pack some workout clothes and take them with me to work. I used to do that when I worked out at the other gym over on 41. That's the plan, anyway. I was almost halfway thinking I'd just wait until MY gym opened in a couple weeks...but that would be wimping out, now, wouldn't it? Might as well get in a couple extra workouts...maybe they'll have a good class or two I could get in. I could maybe call and ask what their after work classes are...it would be the 5:30 or 6pm classes. That's what I'll do.
