It’s already been 3 months since I’ve had my surgery. Hard to believe and yet sometimes I feel like it just happened. I feel like I’m doing really well. I’m playing a good amount of Pickleball here at our courts as well as in outside groups and am moving good on the courts. I do feel like I have more mobility cause I am no longer wearing my brace. I don’t have to, that’s why I got my new knee. The brace was keeping it all together until I got my replacement and now that I have I am brace free. I still have a good amount of swelling and it does occasionally get stiff but that’s all to be expected and will be that way for a little longer. I do continue to ice everyday and that is helping I’m sure. And at this point I only have one annoying problem, that one spot on the inside of my knee. It STILL is bothering me and hurts now and then and of course at night drives me crazy.
So today at my 12 weeks out checkup I was telling Dr Wilmink how it’s still bothering me. He said that they do alot of work when they or go in there and it’s not the joint that’s the problem it’s the tendon. It’s inflamed and tender. He said I could wait it out and of course like everything else it would go away, or he could give me a steroid shot to quicken it. Well naturally I said let’s quicken it. So he decided to give me the shot to help. He said it’s completely normal and sometimes it even happens to people a few years down the road. I got my shot. But holy hell did that sucker hurt. Hurt, like bite my tongue cause I want to yell hurt. Then he said yeah and it’s gonna probably hurt more later too. As I am sitting here getting ready to go to bed I have to say he as right. It’s hurting quite a bit right now but I’m hoping in the next few days it will all be worth it.
The rest of my appointment went well. I asked if now that I had replacements I don’t have any more arthritis in my knees and he said no it’s all gone and won’t come back. That’s good news. He shook my hand and said go kick some butt playing Pickleball and I’ll see you in 5 years. That’s exciting!!
