Down for the Count

Staying home from work has it's advantages. Sure, you can sleep late and not worry about being late for work, battling traffic jams or getting there before your gas light comes on.
So when it became apparent that I had to have arthroscopic knee surgery I contented myself with the thought of staying home for a week. No big deal, it would be like a vacation at home. I'd sleep as late as I wanted. I'd sit in my favorite recliner and read a good book. Work wouldn't miss me too much, after all... it's only a week.
Well, that week has turned into 6! Yeah, you heard me. Six weeks! Thank God my job has a great short term disability benefit package.
Of course, I should have known that MY surgery wouldn't be the simple, run of the mill, procedure that my doctor laid out for me. Nooooooo, not me! What he thought was a simple snipping of my plica tendon, and a shaving of a meniscus tear, turned out to be major cartilage damage from an apparent injury I can not, for the life of me, remember doing to myself.

This is a picture of the knee cartilage that looks like it's supposed to. Can you see how the top and bottom are nice and smooth.


This is more how my cartilage looks... yucky:

These are not my pictures, just some that I found online. But mine are even worse that the one above. I have a huge crater in my cartilage that has exposed the bone. Doc poked at the bone to make it bleed and create a blood clot that will cusion my bones... ya know, since I don't have any. ugh, you'd think my body was 80 years old!
The funny thing... and I mean funny... is that this condition primarily effects athletes! Now, I can tell you, I have nothing in common with any athlete whatsoever! lol I'm a couch potato.

So after just 2 1/2 weeks in my recliner, I've read about 4 books, one of them was Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer. "So what" you say? Well, it's 754 pages long, that's what! I read it in two days. Yeah, it was that good.

Anyway, so I'm down for the count, like my title says. Growing more bored by the day. I have 6 books on hold at the library, which Mountain Man will have to pick up for me as soon as they come in. I'm counting the days for that, let me tell ya. Oh yeah, and crutches really suck! My shoulder and hip are killing me on the opposite side as the bad knee. Ugh!

Until next time... protect your knees!