A very high level of suck…
Something’s so wrong with my right knee and I am trying not to freak out. This morning, while heading down to the basement to get some hay for the guinea pig, I put my right foot down on the next step - no thumping, no twisting, no other obvious trauma, just a step - and I got a shot of take-the-top-of-your-head-off pain just above the kneecap.
Since then, it’s been an ugly day. I had to work at Hospice and it was necessary to go up and down stairs several times - which was tearfully painful. The pain can shoot down to my calf and up to my hip at times, though not consistently. Standing or sitting with the leg unbent is comfortable but any simultaneous bending and weight bearing hurts quite alot (though not as bad as the stairs). Bending the knee while sitting ilicits a dull ache. There’s no visible swelling, redness, or deformity, it’s not really tender to the touch. I’m doing ice and ibuprofen and wondering what the hell happened to me!! After the usual web scramble for a self-diagnois, the closest thing I can come up with is tendonitis (maybe tendon rupture?). Fuck. Sorry for the vulgarity. But seriously. This really hurts.
I hope I wake up tomorrow all better.
Comment by Jennifer
Wednesday February 15 2006 @ 9:28 pm
oh! Take care and I hope it gets better quickly!