A quick blog about "dirt". DWD went off without much of a hitch... at least that's what it appeared to be from the sidelines. I hung all day at the start/finish area and helped out as much as I could which wasn't much more than calling out that an ultra runner was heading in to the finish line.

Our team, "Hunting Tail" looked absolutely fabulous even though we didn't win anything for our costumes! NOTHING. I'm still having a hard time believing that one. Guess the judge didn't like Katie... she did kinda stick her butt out at the judge in an overly sassy way to demonstrate the "functional tail" that I created for her deer costume. Oh well, there's always next year. The guys on the team could use some camouflage.

The Knee, The Knee, The Knee....

So I haven't had much to say about the knee so far. I've been busying myself with other things like making costume pieces for DWD (which I'll share and discuss soon). I woke this morning with a gloomy feeling... unsure of what to do with myself. I had the arthroscopic surgery with Dr Anderson on Thursday morning. I don't think it went as well as he or I had planned. A few reasons for thinking that. 1) After surgery Dr Anderson came in to the recovery room and said "it was pretty bad in there." 2) Something still doesn't feel right 3) not that I really know what I'm looking at but the picture from inside my knee looked really really bad. I showed the picture to a DWD runner who said he was an ortho and he pointed out a lateral and medial tear, and arthritis on the condyle (end of the bone). He mentioned the ACL but didn't have anything to say about it in regard to injury. I scanned my scope pictures and uploaded it to imageshack. Here's the link. Now like I said, I don't what I'm looking at but I can definitely see the tears and am very sure that fraying stuff shouldn't be there.

Feels like: Despite the medial pain being gone there seems to be a bit of instability issue and wiggle room in the knee. No, I haven't been testing it out, but on occasion I will accidentally drag it on something (ie trip over it) and it will pull the knee sideways and it feels funky. Also it feels like there's some sort of clunking going on at the lateral side now. AND on top of that the funny pulling feeling on the posterior lat side of knee is still bothersome as is the funny pain that I feel up into my butt.

That all being said, I won't know anything more until I meet with Dr Anderson again on the 17th and I'm going to try to keep positive thoughts! I guess I'll have to start going back to the Y to keep myself mentally healthy in the meantime.

Well aren't you a "deer"...

I'm feeling pretty lousy after Friday's work. Can't sleep. Well, I can sleep but I wake up all the time from the knee.

I've been keeping myself busy of late with the creation of deer ears, a deer tail, and deer hooves for Katie's costume for this year's DWD race. Their team name is "Hunting Tail" and the 3 guys will wear orange singlets and the gals will dress as forest animals (a deer and a bunny). I am tring to attach the hoof part to the shoe cover, but don't seem to have the right kind of velcro. OH NO...... must I go to Jo-Ann's!??!? I'll try to behave myself when I go. :)