The Mafia didn't do it...

So April 25 was the last posting I did.  There's a really good reason for that.  I've been a little preoccupied with simply trying to get around with an ankle to thigh immobilizer on my left leg.

On April 27, I fell.  Directly on my left knee.  Directly on concrete.  I was immediately enveloped in severe pain and then spent the evening in the emergency room.  X-rays confirmed what my beloved had already diagnosed.  I had broken my kneecap.  All on my own.  No car wreck, no sports injury, no mafia wanting their money back.  I simply slipped and fell.  I don't even have a cool story to go along with it.

I was placed in a temporary immobilizer, drugged, and sent home on crutches with orders to see an orthopedic surgeon the next day.  At that appointment, he said that while the bone was broken, the joint wasn't affected.  I won't go into too many details, but will say that there were a couple of needles involved and I probably hurt a few eardrums.  He wanted me to come back in one week and as long as I didn't need surgery, they would put me in a jointed immobilizer.

I was sent home again with more drugs and orders to stay off of my leg. (see my next posting for what actually happened this night).

Fast forward to the following Monday and we had to back to see the Dr. again. He  had reviewed the x-rays again and believed that we could heal it without doing surgery.  I was sent to get the jointed immobilizer after being told that it would be locked in 'zero' for the next three weeks.  I broke down as I had hoped that I would have movement from this appointment. 

We obtained the new "massive" immobilizer that makes me look like a character from "Terminator" and headed home.  I was too worn out to do anything but take some pain medication and crash.

Here it is the 14th of May and I've been 2 1/2 weeks without bending my knee. and I still have 2 more weeks before they'll even consider letting me bend it even the slightest little bit.

And?  It pretty much sucks.

Promise me you'll try very hard to never, ever break a kneecap...