Pins and Kneedles....

(Two of the great friends who have been taking care of me while Tom is out of town...)

I had my follow-up appointment on my knee today.  The doctor walked in, sat down and said - "Now let me look through your MRI..."  And proceeded to sit there for 20 minutes (really it was more like 4 or 5...) silently looking at my MRI.  I sat there, all pins and needles (get the title now? Pins and Kneedles?) trying to read his expressions and keeping my fingers (and toes) crossed for good luck.  It doesn't work any better to cross your fingers as an adult, than it did as a kid...  It looks like I've completely torn my ACL and also have some tearing of my Meniscus.  It was a little hard to read the MRI because of the swelling in my knee and some loose tissue floating around and still hard to do a physical exam, since my knee is still roughly the size of a cantaloupe.  So the doctor wants to wait two weeks and re-examine it to determine what surgery I'm going to need.  It doesn't make all that much sense to me, but I'm certainly not the expert, so I'll trust him.  I'd rather be careful than too hasty and do something that wasn't needed.  So I have some surgery, some time in March.  Until then, I can limp around in my brace and try to rest my knee as much as possible.  Done.  Bring on the Soaps and Bon Bons.... =)