2.4.16 The Ocean

I’d been texting with Mike Barwis since I felt the “wonky”ness.  He told me that if the wonky-ness persisted; I should see Dr. Frush.  My appointment was last Thursday.  Dr. Frush has changed offices but the new office still has the “super-sized” chairs for basketball players

and that still made me laugh and it was somehow comforting.  I was called back and me and my Mom were ushered into an exam room.  I answered a few questions and was taken to another room for an x-ray.  I immediately was faced with the task of transferring from my chair onto the table for the.  Enter my Mom to help.  It’s ALWAYS a humbling experience to be faced with a task that I physically can no longer do.  I used to be able to but currently cannot.  As I laid on the x-ray table, I noticed that both of my legs we straight.  This fact was different from the last time I laid on the x-ray table with an injured leg.  Even though I needed help physically to get on the table, I saw that I’m progressing with my straight legs.

My Mom helped me into my chair and we headed back to the exam room to wait for Dr. Frush. Jennifer came in first to ask some questions about my injury.  She remembered me from last time and she commented that I was back.  I told her that I have another leg.  I had previously torn my left hamstring and it was my right groin that hurt now. I showed her the discolorization on my leg.  (I wore my tear-away pants that I haven’t worn in years just so I could show them my leg and still stay kind of warm).  She told me the doctor would be in shortly.

Dr. Frush came in and told me that my x-rays were negative but he sat in a chair close to mine to check my leg out.  It was still a bit bruised and he pressed various places on my leg and asked if it hurt.  Most places didn’t but some did.  He checked my range of motion and then he asked if I remembered when I had my ACL surgery (it was on my right knee).  I told him quickly that it was January 10, 2000.  Then he asked if I remembered who did it and I laughed.  OF COURSE I DID!!!  I told him, “Yeah, Kyle Anderson!” I continued to laugh and added, “Because I was in love with him!”  It was his and Jennifer’s turn to laugh.  They KNEW him!  Dr. Frush told me that he (Dr. Anderson) had just finished being the Lions’ Doctor this past season.  To save myself a little embarrassment, I told Dr. Frush that I was 17.  But, I really wasn’t that embarrassed.  In my 17-year-old brain, he was HOTT!!!  He told me that I needed an ultrasound and said I should layoff Barwis for a bit.

My Mom and I went to breakfast and were set to return for my ultrasound in the afternoon.  Upon our return, we were ushered into a different room.  The Radiologist came into the room with an intern and I didn’t catch either one of their names.  The ultrasound started and the Radiologist began speaking a different language, a medical one.  The other Doctor completely understood this language and they got Dr. Frush in the room to see the ultrasound.  Once Dr. Frush was in the room, the different language continued.  The ultrasound was extensive and I didn’t completely understand this medical language.

Dr. Frush summed everything up for me though:  I have 2 hematoma in my leg.  One in my groin and one in my hamstring.  I will be bruised for 3-4 more weeks and my soreness will last 6-8 more weeks.  He had already given me a new script for new compression socks and physical therapy.  (I go back to ATI on Monday).  I see Dr. Frush in 6 weeks.  Once the doctors left and I got dressed, I asked my Mom if there was a picture of my leg still on the monitor and if it looked like a hematoma.  She said that there was a picture and as she turned the monitor so I could see, she said, “It looks like the ocean.”  She was right.  I didn’t understand the picture and it DID look like the ocean.