My knee popped out again this morning. My eyes were open when it happened just like yesterday. Yesterday, I started thinking about the x-rays I had done of my right knee a few weekends ago. The x-ray I thought of was my second x-ray in the second emergency room that I was in on Saturday after my second ambulance ride. It was the first ambulance ride that I didn’t have any pants on for!
I make it a point to remember everyone’s name if I’m going to speak of them in my blog so I think my Porter was named Sergei who took me for my second x-ray at Henry Ford Hospital downtown this time. I thought about this x-ray because for the past 19 years, I haven’t really ever spoken about this, at least with an x-ray technician! Sergei (I think that’s what his name was) took me into the room and a young woman got me ready for the x-rays.
She asked me if I had any metal in my knee. I gave her this standard answer just like I give a list of surgeries that I’ve had and when I’ve had them. I don’t think I got her name but I told her that I had metal buttons in my right knee and I told her that it was orthopedic hardware so it was OK to x-ray.
Once she took the pictures, the same pictures I took at the Dearborn emergency room she came out from behind the glass and asked me when I got what I got in my knee. I kind of laughed and told her that they are metal buttons that I got from my ACL reconstruction. She told me that she had never seen them before in her life! She added that they DO look like buttons!
I have never really been asked about them before and I had my ACL reconstructed 19 years ago! I was asked about the hardware when my knee was first injured in September 2016. I told the doctor then that it was almost 17 years ago that my ACL was repaired. It really is mind-boggling that I am STILL having problems with my knee!
After the x-rays were finished and I was taken back to my waiting cubicle, the doctor came back in to talk to me about the x-rays and what her plans were for me. I can’t remember her name either but I know that she was really, super pregnant! My Mom asked when she was due and she answered that she was due in February. My Mom let her know that she had three of her kids in February. That’s 60%!
She told me that she was sending me home and my Mom let her know that I needed to go back home in an ambulance. That was my third ambulance ride of the day and the second one that I STILL didn’t have any pants on! I still don’t have any answers about what is happening to my knee and why it is happening! All I know is that it hurts! As I thought about my x-rays from that time in the emergency room, it made me wonder what these buttons look like in my knee.