So my knee's still not right. It's been a couple of weeks so I went back to the doctor today with the expectation of maybe booking an MRI for a few days time. What I got was something slightly different.
Oh boy.
So I'm going to get really technical here, so please bear with me. There are a few squishy, fleshy pads knocking around the ol' nobblies and mine were either swollen, or there was swelling surrounding them. That part was lost in translation, but I did just about manage to understand the swelling part. Anyway, that's when he whipped out an eight foot comedy needle that required two nurses to carry it into the room.
Obviously that didn't happen, but an injection was required. An injection to the knee. While awake. Let that just sink in. Absolutely horrific. It's also not a quick injection, presumably the added fluid isn't particularly natural and your systems need to adapt, slosh around a bit. It's a pretty damned weird feeling because the knee is usually a fairly closed system and when you add several litres of unknown nonsense I imagine it's a bit of a shock. The knee was pretty tight afterwards, I kept expecting a fountain of gore every step. Mainly litres of water or whatever but some gore too.
Anyway, if this doesn't help over the weekend it'll be the MRI option. I'm not a doctor but with a knee full of mysterious liquids, won't it be difficult to get a picture? Maybe they'll have to stab deep into my knee again, this time to extract the lake they put in today.
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