I changed my physical therapy appointment from Thursday (which was Thanksgiving) to Friday. I worked with Luba. After conversation about our Thanksgivings she pulled the star off of my knee that Kristen had put on my knee the last time I was at physical therapy. Before she started working on me, she examined my knee. When my leg is straight out, there is a peak on the lower outside of my knee cap. It has been there since I started physical therapy, pretty much since I was injured. It has lessened some but is still there. However, Luba examined it and told me that it was big.
I’m not sure if it was her or me who dubbed it as being “Mount Kilimanjaro.” We both kind of laughed about it. She said that she wanted to climb Mount Kilimanjaro one day and I told her that I will just live vicariously through her because I could not see myself climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in the near future. She worked the outside of my knee just above Mount Kilimanjaro and worked my quad a lot. It felt really good! Just before she hooked me up for stim and put ice on my knee, she asked about my taping preference. I didn’t have one. I know that my knee feels a whole lot better when there is tape on it but did not know what difference It made as to how it was taped. It all feels good!
Luba asked if I preferred the star that Kristen put on me the last time or if I wanted something different. I just kind of shrugged and shook my head because I had no idea what I wanted. I told her that my knee feels cradled whenever I have tape on it and it really didn’t matter.
In our conversation earlier that day I had told her about being awakened with pain specifically on the top of my kneecap. Since my injury, waking up in pain is an everyday occurrence but recently, I was awakened with pain specifically at the top of my kneecap where it hurt the most. I didn’t know how to answer Luna so she finished hooking me up with a thoughtful look on her face and went Beck to her work station.
When she came back when my time was up for ice, she told me that she was going to tape at me differently. She told me she would put a cross on my knee. I was game And just kind of nodded in agreement. She put one long strip of tape vertically on the outside of my knee And a Nother piece that crossed over the top of my knee. Now, I have always felt cradled whenever I have tape but this taping, the cross, felt WONDERFUL!!! I really dug it and hoped that Mount Kilimanjaro would lesson. Maybe it could be just a hill…