It took two days of constant icing to get over hanging out at my cousin, Shannon’s, house. But it was a great time and I wouldn’t change it for the world! My knee hurt more, yes, but I think it may have been an MS thing because I was so excited to go in the first place. I didn’t go anywhere or do anything on the fourth, I just remained in the recliner with my feet up and knee iced as I have been doing since surgery.
My physical therapy schedule was changed to Wednesday and Friday this week because of the holiday. Brad had Monday and Tuesday off and he would be working on Saturday to recoup the hours. As I was getting ready to go to therapy, I was not in the recliner so I was seated and brought my right foot closer to me. As I moved my foot, I heard a large POP in my knee. ABSOLUTELY scared the BEJEBUS out of me! It took me a moment to realize that it didn’t hurt.
I told Brad about the POP. What I was doing to make it POP, how it sounded, how it scared me, and how it really didn’t hurt. I told him that it sounded like knuckles cracking in the middle of my knee. It didn’t hurt but the sound scared me. It didn’t feel like anything that broken when it POPPED. He listened and told me that it was just air pockets in the synovial fluid in my knee.
I told him that that sounded really cool! He laughed and likened it to cracking your knuckles. He said it was more startling than anything and I agreed because my knee has been hurting for so long, to hear that sound, it sounded like damage was being done but took a minute for me to realize that it did not hurt. Always, in the back of my mind, I wonder about my feeling of pain in my legs. I am in a wheelchair and I really can’t feel the true extent of pain in my legs. I think that is what makes this whole knee injury so much worse because it has been excruciating since September 21st! After surgery, it still hurts a lot but not as badly as it did before surgery.
I always wonder if it is hurting more than I feel it is. But it hurts badly enough even if I am not feeling all of the pain so I guess that really doesn’t matter! It’s become routine for Brad to put me in traction at therapy and that feels really good!
We ended with ice and stim. And that feels equally as good! I don’t like how my knee can’t always feel that good when I am not at therapy. I’ve asked Brad before if it was because I have MS that it is taking so long to feel better. He paused for a moment and thought and then slowly nodded his head. All of the hardware is fixed in my knee but, because of my MS, it is taking longer to feel better. Well, doesn’t that just stink! Gotta love that MS and by “love,” I mean “hate.”