MRI RESULTS

I saw the specialist today and he told me the results of my MRI. It is not showing a tear in the area of my knee. Which is good news. I need to have PT for my right knee due to the fact that it is not aligned right. I start the PT next Wednesday. I hope it won't hurt too much. The last time I had PT was for my pinch nerve and it was a whole lot of massages. I don't think this will be that relaxing. This is going to take some work and have some pain involved. Wish me luck.

First day back

I started back to work today after being off for 2 and a half weeks resting my right knee. It bothered me a little bit soon after going back but it did not hurt a bad as I thought it would after being on it all day. I will go back again tomorrow and hope it will be the same amount of pain and not more.

I started back to knitting class last night. The teacher Elaine had fallen a month ago down her basement stairs and got hurt. she broke both wrists and her nose and also a couple of vertibrae ( spelling) in her back. Victoria a knitter in our class has offered to run her classes until she can get back to it. Victoria did a really great job last night. We had 16 people and I would say 9 were brand new knitters. I worked on my mother's vest. So far this one is a lot easier than Kelly's.

MRI

Had my first MRI today. I did not have to go all of the way into the machine but I was darn close and that was enough for me. I was put in feet first up to my chest area. The crew there were very nice. Before going in they give you a panic button to press in case you need to come out and take a breather. I held tightly to that little baby but I did not have to use it. I kept my eyes closed and listened to Country music. It took about 20 minutes to do the MRI. I would not want to go all of the way inside I'm not sure how I would do. I will find out the results on the 29th when I go back to see the DR.

Knee Update

Went to see the Orthopedic specialist on Tuesday. Apparently my right knee is not lined up correctly. I am thinking that it was caused by my favoring my left leg when I had plantar factitious several years ago in my left foot. I also need an MRI ( Thursday) because I have a possible tear in my meniscus. It is on the inside of my right knee. About a year ago I fell on the table bed in the old camper and it did really hurt there. Don't know if that is the cause because that was a year ago. I may have turned wrong at work and re injured it. I need to have Physical Therapy For the realignment of the knee. I will either have to have one some or all the following : Physical Therapy, Cortisone shot or surgery for the torn meniscus, depending on the tear size and location.

I have my Soldier Christmas stocking letter done. I need to print off one more copy and I am ready to send them on the next person to be filled and sent. I have been knitting everyday I'm working on my Mother's vest. Back to work on Tuesday the 22nd. I hope It works out for me and my knee won't start hurting again.

Weekend fun

Went up to Maine this weekend and brought my aunt Virginia up to stay for the weekend with my parents. Usually she gets to go up there for a week or two each year but the last 2 years it has not worked out. This year she went out to Indiana to visit her family for 3 weeks. She lost her 29 year old grand son a month ago..(my cousin of course that wrote about) We finally got her up there but only for a weekend.

We had a great time. Joe took Friday off and of course I have it off due to being out of work with my knee injury. So we left at 9:00 AM on Friday so that we would get there early afternoon instead of 8:00PM. We went out to lunch for Chinese food and then to the new Hannafords to buy some food. The guys went fishing and us girls read our books and chatted about nothing. We had hot dogs for dinner and had a nice warm campfire. Saturday Joe cooked us all breakfast. he is good at that. The guys went fishing again ( which turned into 5 hours) us girls went out to shop for books. We went to 3 places and finally found a book we had been looking for since Springtime. 6th target by James Patterson. We then treatd ourselves to an ice cream at Cindy's Dockside and ate them out at the picnic tables by the Mariner. We had a nice chicken dinner with baked potatoes and corn on the cob. It started to sprinkle out so we decided on no fire and to instead play some games. We had a game of triple yahtzee in which my dad won. We then played 3 games of Cosmic Wimpout which dad won the first 2 and Joe won the last game.

The weather the whole weekend was in the 70's and sunny. Sunday we stayed til 3:00PM had gone out to breakast and then read our books and went through a million quarters looking for the missing states we needed for our books. We had a nice ride home and a wonderful weekend.

It's hard to believe that we will only be going up there 2 more times the last one on the long weekend to close up. It seems like we just opened up.

Labor Day

Had an absolute fabulous Labor Day weekend. The weather was great. Went camping down at Maple Park Jellystone of cape cod. We had water view sites. It was Sunny and in the high 70's. We did not go swimming but we did sit on the beach in the sun. Could not of asked for better weather. Although Sunday was somewhat windy and blew our tarp down it didn't ruin the weekend.

I have hurt my tight knee somehow after starting work last week. I don't recall anything that would hurt it but it is hurting. Went to the Doctors on Thursday and he thinks it is cartilage rubbing together wearing down. I have to see a specialist on the 15th until then I am out of work. I am resting my knee as best as I can. It's not easy staying off your feet when there is so much to be done around the house.

I hope I will get some knitting done while I am down and out. I am half way done with the button hole section of my vest for my mother. This vest is easier than the one I did for Kelly. No fancy stitches to confuse me. I also hope to get some reading done. I am not reading as much due to the knitting projects but I miss reading and have several books lined up to read.

Getting it done

Today was the first day of school where the students were there. It was a pretty good day. It always takes a while to get back into the swing of things and get the new routines down with the changes that have been made. I hope it will be a good school year.

I brought my knitting to my scrapbook workshop. I got a few rows done. I think after one more row I will be making the 2nd button hole. It takes a while to knit a row consisting of 202 stitches, At least for me. Tonight at the work shop there were only 8 of us. It was the last time that we would be in this church. It was sold and now we need to find a different place to hold our once a month workshops. Denise who is leading us has found us a new spot that we will start to attend next month. We had fun tonight with just our small group. Next month I am sure we will be back to about 20 people. Tonight was for us who have been going since the beginning. Most of the table and chairs have been sold so there was only room for the few that we had there tonight. Next month a new beginning.

First day of school

Today was the first day of school for us to get set up for the school year. The students arrive tomorrow. Why does it seem everyday at this time of year it is a surprise to the staff that does the ordering of supplies that school has started. Nothing is ever in. I absolutely hate the first day. We make a about 5-6 trips to the stock room for supplies and a quarter of them are not in. It is a long way down there for us because we are the furthest away. Everything that we could get is set and ready to go tomorrow. I will be in the new area of the cafe. They changed the old dish room over to be a grab and go of cold sandwiches and salads. We will see how this works out. I came home with a migraine and a sprained hand. Nice first day.

I have started my mother's vest again for the 3rd time. After I got to the first button hole area things started going wrong. That was only in about an inch so it wasn't too bad. However I had to cast on 3 time s after that due to stupid mistakes. I am finally moving ahead and am ready to make the second button hole. That is 4 and half inches from the start so I am getting closer to getting the front done. There are a total of 4 button holes to make each 3 and a half inches from the other. Then starts the fun of decreasing for the arm holes. LALALALA. Wish me luck this weekend in that. I hope to get the button holes done this week so that when I go camping this weekend with my SIL she can watch over me with the decreases. So mandy fprojects for Christmas I need to get done I don't really ahve tidfme for any other hobby at this time of year. We all know I neeed to make my Christmas cards too. Those will need to be started soon too. First got to decide on the stamp set and then the colors ETC.... great now I've got myself depressed on so much to accomplish before Dec. 24th! AHHHHHAHH! That's me screaming!