Update on my knee injury

[Ashlie]

I haven't been online very much lately. Maybe 30 mints a day. My knee
hurts way to much to let it hang off the couch and I can't elevate it
with a chair because it stretches the back part of my knee and that
hurts like hell! So I have been mainly just tossing and turning and
moaning in bed and watching DVDs. IN the last 3 days I have watched the
Ripper 1 & 2, all of the SAW's 1-5, Joan of Arch, Ozzy Osbourne's:
Don't Blame Me, Theatres Des Vampires 2006 Live, The rest of Season 2
of the Tudros, The Mummy 3 & some other ones I can't rememeber.

I've done some research tonight and after talking to my parents on the
phone.. my Dad has had 2 knee replacements on each knee and my Mom has
torn stuff before and had to have a knee scope done and some loose
ligament that was laying in her knee removed. Sooo.. I thought I would
get the best info from them. It's pretty apparent that I tore the
ligament on the outside of my knee. I don't know if it's completely
severed though. As long as it's just the outside one and not the very
middle tendon I shouldn't need surgery. I will have to be really
careful though and once I heal up enough I need to start some physical
therapy to regain full range of movement and strengthen it so it can
become more stable.

I can put about 10 pounds of weight on my foot, but I try and use the
back of my calf muscle to take the weight and I stay on the ball of my
foot. This is only when I get up to use the bathroom or come in the
Living Room and go online. Other than that I've been in bed and if we
don't get some damn HOT water soon I am going to SCREAM!!! My Mother in
law offered us to go over there and take a shower, but they have these
HUGE fucking steps you have to walk up to get in the front door and
there is no way I could do that right now.





Sooo Please keep me in your prayer and thoughts.





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