As you can see my garden has been an attention hog and taking up all my blogging lately, which doesn't say much considering the scarcity of my posts lately...I digress.
So here is some more news about roller derby. I haven't been skating for the past few weeks? Month? due to experiencing pain in my left knee. This happens to be the knee that I injured when I was 13, doing of all things, roller skating. June 23rd I went to see an orthopedist and then had an MRI on the 26th. My biggest fear was the MRI would show something was torn and I would have to have surgery, thus putting skating on hold indefinitely.
Today I got to see the MRI results, which by the way are really cool. If you've never seen one, it looks kind like they turned your leg into a loaf of bread and you can look at different slices.... Good news is, nothing is torn! However, I find the diagnosis oddly comical: Chondromalacia patella.
Or in layman's terms: Runners knee. Ha, do they know who they are talking to? I don't run. I wish I could. I see people running all the time, saw a lot of MIT and Harvard students running along the Charles yesterday as I drove my car. I wish I could run, but I just get bored and out of breath. I realize this term is really due to this being a common injury for runners, but with the reimmergence of roller derby, they may want to consider changing the term to, "skaters knee".
If you are feeling sympathetic and would like to see what symptoms and conditions constitute this diagnosis, I found this page is pretty much spot on: http://www.revolutionhealth.com/conditions/bones-joints-muscles/knee-pain/symptoms/chondromalacia-patella?
If you actually took the time to look at that page you'll already know what needs to be done to cure myself of this ailment. Rest, anti-inflamatory drugs, and some good old PT. Hopefully my knee will be good as new soon and I can get back to skating in a few weeks.
In other derby news, the New Hampshire Roller Derby is really coming together and we are participating in a couple of scrimmages! Even though I won't be skating in any of the upcoming events, I hope everyone will spread the word and come out and support these wonderful women. Look here for details: New Hampshire Roller Derby
Psssst, exciting garden news to come! :-)
2 comments:
Well I'm glad you don't have to have surgery! But now I feel guilty that I had to hear about this on your blog and didn't ask you about it at work.
Yay! Good news for us, your derby sisters...we miss you so! xxoooooooo
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