I worked with Brad on Monday and first and foremost, I talked with him about the heart-breaking defeat of Michigan’s football team by Iowa. But, this was not the only reason I felt defeated. I saw Dr. Frush earlier in the day. I hadn’t been taped since last Monday and my knee hurt. After seeing Dr. Frush’s, I knew the pain was NOT just because I was tapeless.
At my appointment, Dr. Frush had an intern (Dr. K) and a medical student (regretfully, I don’t remember his name). They came in first and the intern poked my knee, extended my leg, and asked about physical therapy. I told him that I would like to go back to work on December 5th. My knee STILL hurts but I explained to Dr. K that it doesn’t hurt as badly as it originally did. He told me that he would extend my physical therapy order and that I was moving in the right direction.
He and the medical student left and returned shortly with Dr. Frush. It was Dr. Frush’s concerned look that concerned me. He said that my knee was more swollen than it should be and ordered n MRI. He extended my leg and poked it in all the same places that Dr. K poked. He mentioned the base of my IT band was swollen and told me to make a return appointment with him to discuss the results of the MRI. Then he told me that we would talk about, “surgical and non-surgical remedies.” … WHAT?! ??? When I mentioned my return to work, Dr. Fresh made sure to correct me by saying that my return to work was, “Tentative.”
i told Brad that the thought of me needing surgery defeated me and Brad just listened. He worked my quad and my right glute by kind of poking the right side of my butt down to my mid-thigh. He did this for a while and then hooked me up for stim. and placed the ice. When my time was up, he put my stars back on. Even though I was re-taped, because my knee still hurt so badly coupled with Dr. Frush’s look of concern, I was defeated.