Monday, October 5, 2009
It is what it is. But what is it???
Ugh well lets see... two weeks ago last night i ended up in the emergency room and had an abscess on my face and then last night I end up in the er again having injured my knee and I'm in pain!! I think I waited too long to go to the emergency room. I went with my husband to his therapy session and was sitting in the waiting room for over an hour. he told me when he walked out of there that I should go tot he hospital because it was so swollen and I said no it isn't that bad and doesn't hurt that much...with in a few hours of getting back to his mothers house my knee blew up!! It was almost 3 times the size of the other one and I said well I think I need the er now. We waited for his mom to come home and she went with us (Michael had already taken his new meds for his bipolar and they make him a little loopy) Well i must say other than the fact that the hospital was FILTHY and I was grossed out at the garbage ( food wrappers, leaves, half used gauze rolls, bandage wrappers) on the floor and the stupid nurse who applied an ace bandage on my knee and it was so loose when I stood up it slid down. UHM HELLO I DON'T THINK THAT THAT CONSTITUTES COMPRESSION!! Well anyway I sprained my knee and have effusion which simply mean too much fluid in the joint. So the combination of standing up and arthritis irritated my knee so that it blew up like a big balloon! but at least they have given me pain killers for it! Oh by the way i love digital x-rays!! They came back so quick! and clear as day! I could read my own x-rays from my room. I do not have as much arthritis in my right knee as i was led to believe! That may be the only thing good that came out of last night well other than getting the first good nights sleep I have had since August 27th, the night before I left Florida for New Jersey and the last night I slept next to my husband before last night. Once I fell asleep last night I was OUT!! Last night I slept so soundly I didn't even wake up to go to the bathroom every two hours like I normally do!! Well because my knee is screwed up I am staying here a second night thankfully there are no stairs here that I would have to climb to go to the bathroom!! Thanks mom!! well more to come soon just needed to vent about the dirty hospital and all.
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