14 Weeks Later

So this week marks 14 weeks since I have my right knee operated on.  Everything has been getting better day by day. It is hurting less each day.  I started to heat my knee before I work out all the time and it seems to be helping it, it hurts less during the day, and if it is hurting and I heat it before I work out, it feels a lot better during and after working out.  I am still icing it each night after working out.

Mountain bike season is coming up so I am getting pretty excited for that!!

Monday was my Ellie Belle's (my dog) 1st Birthday!!  Also, on Thursday, March 28th, is the day that it will be 100 days until me and Kayla get married!!

Not too much else to really talk about with my knee.  Pictures below of my knee, my dog, and the balloons which are almost done, surprised the one lasted this long.

The seriousness of synovial chondromatosis

Just wanted to share this, yesterday a lady from the UK has messaged me on Twitter, she was just telling me good luck with my recovery and that she has synovial chondromatosis as well. So I just said to her back asking when she had surgery for hers, she told me that she had surgery 7 times and had a knee replacement and it still came back. As we messaged more, she told me that no doctors around her will operate anymore and that the only doctors that will is in the USA.

To me this is crazy, I really didn't think this was that bad seeing that, from I read, that this has only a 25% chance of returning. I am thinking that it could be more because some of the medical websites say that the it is common to come back. As in it is still there in the back of my leg, I do expect to have surgery for it again in the coming years, and if it would come back in the other places that it looks to have been removed, then it comes back.

This just shows how serious that this disease that is generally unknown is. I wish that someone could figure out why this happens and that because no one literally does no know. I just pray that the lady that messaged me can get hers figured out because overall, this disease is just crazy. I know that I'm not the only one out there that hopes for a cure and that someone can figure out why this and PVNS happens, since they are sorta similar and no one knows why either happens or a cure for them besides surgery which doesn't work all the time.

12 weeks later

So this past Friday, I drove to Pittsburgh to see the doctor. He said everything looks good, he would just like me to get more bend in it by my next appointment, which is on June 21st, 6 months after surgery. I will be having more X-rays done then as well.

I asked him if there is a known cause for this disease and he said none that he knows of. I asked if my knee giving out prior to surgery, and before my knee swelled up, would have been a thing that could have been this disease and he said that it most likely was it. My knee has been giving out since high school, so he said if they would have gave me X-rays and MRIs then on my knee that they would have most likely found something.

So I'm still working out, doing the Nike+ Fitness stuff and still doing my knee exercises, and icing my knee front and back. It's getting nice out so it is getting closer to mountain bike season!! My knee bugs me every once in a while, or sometimes all day. It seems to bug me as the weather changes, mostly when it's warmer out and it gets cold from when it's been warm or when it is going to or is raining/snowing.

Me and my fiancé have been looking for houses online, this past weekend we went an looked into some houses. We found one that was hard to beat that day, and overall that is within our price range. So we made an offer, they countered, and we accepted it. So we should be closing on the house by mid May. We are both excited!! Then we are getting married on July 6th, going on our honeymoon, then Kayla will officially move out here and we can start our life together with our puppy, Ellie.

Well that's about it, the balloons are still the same as before, 1 afloat the other not, and here is some pictures of my knee from today. I also added a picture of my dog being funny and playing with her squeaker squirrel and showing her belly!