Knee Issues

On Friday 2/1 Jeshua and I went to the Y together to see if he wanted to join. I am not sure what I did because I was trying to be very careful about my knees. All I know is that Saturday when I woke up the knee was swollen and going up and down stairs HURT! I gave it a nice rest, but Sunday was not much better. This was annoying since the work exercise challenge started on 2/1. On Monday I headed to the Urgent Treatment Center, UTC, after work to see what could be done. I did not have the time to get to my own doctor with her being across town. UTC is right down the street which worked out nicely. The doctor gave me a stronger anti-inflammatory and prescribed getting a knee brace, some x-rays just in case, and physical therapy. On Tues I went and had the x-rays done and also tried to get a knee brace. The ones at Cooley Medical were all too small based on the size of my thigh. I will have to check online if I decide to get one. I then got to work on Tues about 9:45 and found out how to apply for FMLA since the PT is going to have me out of work at times. At my job 4 tardies in a month equals an out and I am going to be late or leaving early at least 2 days a week because of this. I am not going to lose my job because I do not use the options I have available. The doctor also requested that I not go and work out till after going to PT, so I waited. My first PT appointment was 2/8 at 7am. It went pretty good. He said if I was careful I could go work out and that since the Y has a pool to try that. My 2nd PT appointment was yesterday and I have one scheduled for Friday as well.

My first day back after a week to the Y was last night for a water aerobics class. Fun!  I also got to go tonight for the 5:30 class. It was a different teacher and a smaller class, but very nice. It was a lot of the same moves. I so need to get a better swimsuit though. So just need to figure out when to go again. I think it will be Thursday for the strength training class since I have been missing that.