Knee Update

So yesterday was my consult with the knee surgeon. The result? I don't have to have knee surgery after all! He said that what the MRI was showing as a tear is just a general "roughing up" of the surface of my meniscus under the kneecap. He said that there's not much he could do surgically about that and that he thinks my current symptoms are coming from some slight arthritis I have that I just got flared up by carrying Leah around. He gave me a cortisone injection and my knee now feels amazing! I do have the cortisone side effects to deal with (for me, these are a migraine-like headache, nausea, sleeplessness and a low-grade fever) but these should be gone tomorrow. It was totally worth it.

By the way, is there a law that all sports medicine/orthopedics doctors must be drop-dead gorgeous? I've never seen a homely, plain or ugly one. Very interesting.

And just to make this more of a stroke post--the sports medicine clinic is actually inside Hendricks Regional Hospital's main entrance. I haven't walked through those doors since J.J. was in the ICU. I actually teared up a little as I parked my car.