It has been seven months and five days since my knee was hurt. It’s not like I have forgotten what a normal knee feels like, my left knee feels normal. In the past seven months and five days, I have forgotten what it feels like to NOT have a broken knee. My right knee is broken. I felt that something was wrong with my knee three days after the incident; that feeling was strengthened because it was not feeling better and healing with physical therapy. Finally, the feeling was solidified when Dr. Frush told me that my meniscus was torn and I needed surgery to fix it. I knew something was broken!
As my surgery date approaches, I am feeling nervous. I am nervous because there is no way of knowing how my body will feel having had MS for 16 years until my body is feeling it. I know that my body takes longer to heal with MS (my broken ankle took 6 months to heal). I also know that knee surgery is the most pain I have been in my life to this point! These aforementioned things are two things I am not looking forward to at all! A friend of mine told me that he didn’t think that the pain I will have post-surgery will be as bad as the pain I have been in for the past seven months and five days. I hope he’s right!
I got a call from the hospital where I will have my surgery last week. They asked me a bunch of medical questions. They also told me that I have to discontinue the supplements I am on for my MS one week before surgery.I stopped my supplements on Monday and today (Wednesday) I am feeling like the Tinman in the beginning of the Wizard of Oz before Dorothy and the Scarecrow give him the oil. My body is so stiff that movements are slow and my knee is hurting even more! But, looking on the bright side, I only have to endure for five more days. I can do anything for five days! At least, that is what I am telling myself…
Jennifer, I am just figuring out that you are a blogger! I never knew a real life blogger before. What I have done before is have surgery on my meniscus. I understand your anxiety about the surgery. Are they doing the microscopic surgery for yours? They were able to do that for mine, but I know they aren’t always able to do it that way. When they do it, and however they do it, and for the time before they do it, I will be praying for your comfort and for your healing after. I sure wish you could talk your Mom into joining us on Facebook. Your new friend, Beverly