Now, the pain in my knee is DEFINITELY present and over a month later, I still wake up in pain. It no longer is the constant throbbing all over from my knee feeling that it is cracked open. Now, it is a more pin-pointed pain. It’s not any less severe but it’s different. The pain is not by my MCL (that’s in the lower inside of my knee) that was strained in my injury but instead, it is the upper outside of my knee, (the area having to do with my IT band I’ve learned). Greg told me that muscles don’t move in isolation and I have A LOT more going on so there is no clear-cut explanation. Gotta LOVE MS! ???
One thing I’ve learned that helps a little bit with the pain is if I hike up my right pant leg at the knee to alleviate some of the pressure on my knee. It only helps a little bit and I’ve figured out that this pain is also constant and I can’t shake it. It’s the kind of pain that sends a numbing, tingling feeling through my fingertips. I told Brad about the “pant leg hiking” as an attempt to alleviate the pain. He worked on my knee by pushing up through my quad. As he was doing this, we talked about Halloween coming up.
I don’t have any plans; now that Sean is older and no longer trick-or-treating and we live on a busy street, I don’t have to do anything. Sean’s going out and trick-or-treaters don’t come to our house. I asked Brad what he was doing/being. He was doing a couples costume with his fiancé. At first they were going to be a zombie bride and groom because they’re getting married this year. But now, he’s thinking he’ll be Jim Harbaugh (so he’ll have to shave) and his fiancé will be a football player. It’s SO GOOD that Brad is on the correct side of Michigan vs. Michigan State game this weekend. I told him that that was REALLY CUTE, then I told him that that costume takes commitment.