Dragon fire

Dragon fire

Sorry I haven't been on my blog for months, but I chickened out!!

Plucked uo the courage to come on-line again after my friend Chris persuaded me to.

A lot has happened in my life since January. I have had to have an operation on my right knee, an arthroscopy, to repair a damaged cartlidge, and to re-shape my thigh bone at the knee joint, due to arthritis damage. That was on 8th March........... went back to see the specialist on the 22nd March, and was feeling fantastic so went back to work the following day.

As the weeks went by I was in more and more pain, until it got to the point 2 weeks ago when I was in agony!! I thought that it was just me being a "whimp" and refused to give in to the pain, but in the end, I had to go to see the GP and she referred me immediately back to the consultant. So there I am sitting in the hospital waiting room a week today, waiting to see the consultant, thinking the worst (as you do)!!!

He was wonderful, he looked at the offending knee, and said that the joint wasn't infected (thank goodness) and said the he thought that my brain still thought that my knee had an injury and my body was trying too hard to repair itself, and the knee was being supplied with too much blood - which was making it swollend and hot!!

He proceeded to give me a painkiller and steroid injection in my knee, and told me to rest it for the next 48 hours, and to see the physio later in the week.

I went to the physio on Thursday, and she has told me to take it easy for a couple of weeks, and the only exercises I could do were exercise bike, and basic physio exercises.

So on Saturday Chris and I went off to join the gym and we had our health checks this afternoon, I have to go to my GP (again) to get permission to exercise, as my BP was high - I knew that it would be, it always goes up when I am nervous, it is normally well controlled with medication!

So I will be ringing for an appointment in the morning. I really want to start exercising as soon as possible.

I have also lost 23lbs since Christmas, which is fantastic, seeing as I have been relatively imobile for the last 2 months!!!

I have prattled on so much that this is getting a bit long, so I will carry on this story at a later date - see you soon