I'm Getting Old Much Earlier than I Thought I Would

Back when we were in Hawaii I remember squatting down to either put away laundry or tuck Caleb in and I though, "ouch" that hurt!  My knee has never healed.

In January, I decided to start running again with my Mom a couple of times a week (she works out daily and I was going to tag along with her). We started and my knee didn't like it.  I tried to just walk on it instead and do some weight lifting to see if that would help strengthen it but  that made it worse. I decided to stop and just baby my knee throughout the day and to see if it would get better.  Nope. I decided I'd better go get it checked out and the Dr. sent me to get an MRI done because he was pretty sure I had a torn meniscus.

Sure enough my meniscus was torn and I had a flap of cartilage hanging out behind me knee too. That doesn't repair itself and unless I had surgery it was just going to get worse over time. So, I had knee surgery on June 28.  I found out later I had two small tears in my meniscus, the flap removed, and my knee cap was kind of a mess.  He fixed all of those problems and now I'm just recovering.  It really hasn't been bad after the first 4 days or so.

10 days post op.  I had two small cuts and that was it. Pretty amazing they can do all that with two small cuts.

I can walk normal but I still can't bend my knee back as far as I could before.  It also gets a bit sore if I walk a lot. It will take about another month for all of the swelling to go down and to feel better.
We are so lucky to live in a time that surgery takes place while we sleep and doctors have noninvasive ways to do many surgeries.