MRI Review/Other News

Today I have my MRI review. Everything looks good and should be 100% in a month. He said he doesn't see the need for surgery at this time, so that is good. I am now doing 2 days a week of therapy in the pool in addition to one day on land every other week for the next month. So, Jan 21st is my next doctor's appointment and we will decide what to do with my knee cap. He thinks it could get better with the PT, so we will see.

That wonderful husband of mine has driven me crazy this week. How was I susposed to know that this was the last week of hunting in WNC? So, I had to whine and cry to get him to stay home with me Saturday. Hopefully everything will go as planned. As we all know Saturday is the big party (don't worry he doesn't have the link to this blog yet....just because of this ...lol) I think he will be pleasantly surprised. All I have left to do is pick up the cake, scrapbook and blown up pictures to display. I will be decorating Friday night and everything will be ready to go for Saturday. Tomorrow afternoon I am meeting with my brother to go over the slide show and see how it looks. I will be so relieved after this is all done :)

I hope every one is getting their Christmas shopping done.....Christmas is only 15 days away. Phillip went shopping today and he got me a Build A Bear Moose dressed as Santa for decoration (isn't he sweet?). I have found that if I want to get exactly what I want for Christmas I have to give him an extremely detailed list. I put pictures of the items, with sizes, prices and stores available at. This has served me well :)

I'm ready for Christmas.

Knee update

Yesterday was my big doctor's appointment. I was really expecting to hear that I could be off crutches and all was good. The xrays do not show additional breaks, so that is good. I am scheduled to have an MRI on Saturday and then Wednesday (10th) review it with the doctor to make sure it is healing correctly. If it is, I should be off crutches completely in 2 weeks. If not, 6 weeks more of crutches. Thats not the fun part. My patella (knee cap) is not on straight. Because of that, the cushioning between the bones is wearing thin. I have Digenerative Joint Disease. So, after the fracture is healed he is going to do a scope surgery to clean out the debris in my knee as well as explore the other issues going on in there. He thinks at some point I will need a full knee replacement. Luckily he is going find every alternative to that. SO, at this point we won't know much until Wednesday. Blah.