Well, I had my
knee examined today. 5 years ago, I went to the
doctor because of knee pain. I also told them about a huge freakin'
lump I had on the back of my knee. They told me it was a
baker's cyst. I have no idea what that is. I'm not a doctor. They told me it should be painless and I just had to do some
flexibility exercises every day and the pain would go away in a few months. Well, I've been exercising for
five years and now the pain has recently flared. I went to the doctor again, except this time I didn't go to the same
bitchy old
ornery doctor. I went to a doctor that I had been to before a couple times, and seemed to be nicer. Now this doctor, he can't tell you that you have a
cold unless he first explains to you the
history of the cold, what it is, how you got it, etc... So I told him about the pain and the cyst and he says, "Well, how do you get a cyst, specifically in the knee that is? It's a sac filled with fluid. In this case,
joint fluid. Where did the fluid come from? There had to be some sort of
injury or tear to the knee." I told him that I had had an
MRI previously and he said, "Well, MRIs will usually pick up a tear to the miniscus, but they aren't
perfect. But I'm sure it's not really big... So I'll just give you a
recommendation to a different doctor, a
prescription for
extra strength pain killers, recommendation to
radiology for
X-rays, send you over for an MRI, and we might need to do some
surgery to figure out what's wrong."
Nothing BIG?
I never even had my tonsils taken out, and this is nothing big?? They are going to
cut my knee open and look around for a while! And plus I'm going to be laying down with my ass up in the air (with an open-backed
gown) so they can look at the
back of my knee.
There is one
bonus though. They did inform me that I am going to get stoned off my rocker. I remember when I had my teeth pulled. They gave me
nitrous oxide which lasted for about 4 hours when the pulling took about 15 minutes. And they don't wait for it to wear off, they just send you home immediately. So I was playing with my
dog for a few hours and
everything was just extra
fun.
I will take this like a man.