I've spent Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday on the recliner icing my knee and I am BORED. I go out in the mornings and evenings to check the tomatoes and water and the rest of the time I'm playing games on my phone or reading a book I'm just not interested in. I've already notified Jan that I probably won't be at SHARE tomorrow either. She says stay home and stay off it.
I don't know if you can tell from this picture how sickly yellow my knee and leg has bruised and the purple is behind my knee. Weird, right? The color starts above my knee and goes about two thirds of the way to my ankle. Still swollen but not as much and there's a lump between my knee cap and the front of the tibia, an area full of ligaments and meniscus. I spent part of the day Wednesday reading about knee and ligament and meniscus injuries and treatment. I didn't hear a pop, indicative of a torn ligament, no weakness in the knee, no wobbliness in the knee, no pain when I walk or bend it though I haven't tried bending it past about 90 degrees. Past that it feels like it's being stretched. So I don't have a clue what the exact injury is, a sprain maybe.
I imagine the conversation at my next annual since they have started asking me if I've fallen lately. What do you mean by 'fall'? Do you mean fall if I tripped over something anyone no matter their age would have fallen after tripping over it? Or getting dizzy and falling or just plain losing my balance while puttering around the house or yard or because a knee or ankle gave way unexpectedly? Because I don't think falling after tripping over a mostly hidden pipe in the grass really counts.
No one could have caught themselves and I had landed on my knee before I even realized I was falling though I was quick enough to save my face.
Wednesday night I woke up at some point and realized I was laying in the fetal position with my knee fully bent and no pain. Well, that's good thinks I. So I decided to go to SHARE after all and as soon as I walked in everyone was all, what are you doing here, you're supposed to be home taking care of your knee to which I replied that after three days of sitting on my ass I was bored stupid. Fortunately it wasn't very busy, about half of what we did last week and one of the other volunteers assigned herself to me to help and I would sit in between food orders. So all is well, still a little swollen and tender to the touch though.
As mentioned we are having a heat wave with highs in the high 90s and the 'feels like' in triple digits. That in itself is bad enough but it has been so far accompanied with a dry south wind. I'll water something and the next day it's droopy. These crinum blooms usually last a couple of days but this wind is drying them out overnight.
Welcome to global warming.
