{"id":26,"date":"2011-05-29T21:11:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T21:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2011-05-29T21:11:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T21:11:57","slug":"waiting-february-25th-through-march-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Waiting: February 25th through March 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"

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'Snowing' my knee<\/p><\/div>\n

Waiting for a Dr. Visit<\/h3>\n

The emergency room doctor told me to wait 5-7 days for the swelling to subside and to then go see my regular doctor.\u00a0 During the 5-7 days the most important part was no weight-bearing at all.\u00a0 I should take Vicodin as needed and also 800mg of Advil 3x daily.\u00a0 I should also apply R.I.C.E: Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation.\u00a0 I did it all: iced my knee, kept the immobilizer tight when I wasn\u2019t icing, kept the leg up, and rested.\u00a0 I work at a computer so it was relatively easy for me to be sedentary.\u00a0 Did I mention that my knee looked more like a grapefruit than a knee?\u00a0 I quickly realized that Vicodin wasn\u2019t for me\u2026it slowed me down without offering relief from the discomfort.\u00a0 I tried it some nights to help me sleep, but honestly, a glass of scotch was more helpful than the Vicodin.<\/p>\n

First Dr. Visit<\/h3>\n

I waited 4 days to schedule a Dr. Appointment, which turned out to be a bad idea.\u00a0 By then my doctor wasn\u2019t going to be available until day 9 after my accident.\u00a0 Thankfully I listened to my Mom, who has had a lot of orthopedic issues: \u201cGo to Tria, that is all they do and they do it well\u201d. \u00a0I called my insurance and found that Tria was in-network for me and also that I didn\u2019t even need a referral; even better, there was a doctor who could see me sooner than my own physician.\u00a0 So, on day 7, I went to Tria.\u00a0 Dr. Gorman examined me then had more X-rays done because she was concerned about the posterior of my tibia-femur joint.\u00a0 The new X-rays showed that I had a compression fracture of the tibia; luckily, it was between the two weight-bearing areas.\u00a0\u00a0 She ascertained that I needed an MRI.\u00a0 She also warned me that we were going to find a disrupted ACL and told Kammy and me a bit about the procedure.<\/p>\n

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\"Stairs<\/a>

Old stairs and crutches = no fun<\/p><\/div>\n

MRI<\/h3>\n

I\u2019d never had an MRI before.\u00a0 That sure was a long, noisy, somewhat uncomfortable experience!\u00a0 Now I know what they mean when they say an MRI is awful if you\u2019re claustrophobic.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad it was my knee and not my head in there!\u00a0 Even so, I was in the \u2018tube\u2019 up to my mid-torso.\u00a0 I got to wear some heavy headphones with a bunch of channels of bad music piped in.\u00a0 (I could choose my bad music genre but it didn\u2019t help much.)\u00a0 I went in late on a Friday evening, one of the last of the week.\u00a0 Of course, I\u2019d have to wait \u2018til Monday to get the news.<\/p>\n

Second Dr. Visit<\/h3>\n

Monday morning we headed off for a 9AM visit with Dr. Gorman.\u00a0 It took a while in the examination room because, apparently, they needed some lead-time to get the MRI processed and ready to look at.\u00a0 Finally the doctor came in and showed us the results.\u00a0 MRIs are pretty cool; it\u2019s amazing how much you can see with them.\u00a0 Less amazing was what we saw, which was the bad news that she was expecting\u2026I had a \u2018Disrupted Anterior Cruciate Ligament\u2019, which meant it tore right through.\u00a0 The unexpected news was that not only did I have a compression fracture of my Tibia, but also one in the Femur.\u00a0 Thankfully, both were in non-weight-bearing parts of the joint.\u00a0 Even better, though, was that neither resulted in any loose bone-fragments anywhere so the procedure for them was to just let them heal.<\/p>\n

She went into more detail about the whole process.\u00a0 First, I will have to recover from the initial injury.\u00a0 Bones must mend; swelling must go down and I\u2019ll have to regain the strength I lost from being immobilized the past week and a half.\u00a0 Then, in 5 to 6 weeks I\u2019ll have ACL Reconstruction surgery and have to start healing all over again.\u00a0 She told me to get started on \u2018prehab\u2019 ASAP, and also referred me to a surgeon, Dr. Fetzer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Waiting for a Dr. Visit The emergency room doctor told me to wait 5-7 days for the swelling to subside and to then go see my regular doctor.\u00a0 During the 5-7 days the most important part was no weight-bearing at all.\u00a0 I should take Vicodin as needed and also 800mg of Advil 3x daily.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}