Knee Results Are In

Before we get into the knee results I have to tell you about my surprisingly eventful Thursday....

I took a long lunch at Job #1 and had lunch at Panera with Sarah and her mom. Yay!! That was super fun. I love being an adopted daughter of the Gorton family. :-) After work, Andy and I headed to Casa Larga - I had an appointment to check out the place for a possible wedding venue, but Andy wasn't able to go to the appointment so we decided to head out there for a wine tasting so that he could at least see what it looked like. The wine tasting was pretty fun actually and only cost $2 to try 5 different wines. Awesome! 

After our wine tasting we headed to Anna and Bipul's for... HOLI!!!!

Lisa and Babs

Andy getting his colors!

Bips and Anna

According to Wikipedia, Holi (Hindi: होली, Nepali: होली,Punjabi: ਹੋਲੀ Sindhi: هولي) is a religious spring festival celebrated by Hindus as a festival of colours. According to Babs, Holi is a fun time of smearing colors on our faces and eating delicious Indian food. :-) 

Then Friday morning came... the knee appointment. The moment I've been waiting for.

Back to Building D

The exam table - my friend

I went in for my appointment and right away they pulled up my MRI pics. The images actually grossed me out, and when you add the talking to it... well, I had to lay down on the exam table because I felt so lightheaded I thought I was going to pass out. They brought me orange juice. I felt like such a wuss. 

Anyway, my MRI came back NEGATIVE for a meniscus tear. Yay! Sort of. I mean... I didn't want them to find a tear, but what was sort of frustrating was that they didn't really find anything wrong. Something has to be wrong... it hurts! What they did find was a "Baker's Cyst." Apparently what has happened... I've had a lot of inflammation: inflammation = fluid. When you have fluid in your knee it wants to take the path of least resistance, which is apparently to the back of your knee. Well all of my fluid traveled to the back of my knee and formed this cyst (I could have described this wrong but that's at least how I'm understanding it). 

That's not supposed to be there

So for all of this inflammation to have occurred (and they saw I still have inflammation behind my knee cap and on the sides of my knee) something at some point was unhappy in my knee (and still might be unhappy...they said the MRI can't show everything). They did another "poking" exam and I still had pain when they pressed on the side of my knee - they said the MRI didn't show that I should have pain there, but I do... 

I was given two options. Try physical therapy or get it scoped (surgery). After talking to the docs there, talking to my dad, having my dad talk to the ortho at his hospital, and talking to a lot of other people who have had knee surgeries... I'm going to get it scoped. They will go in and at the very least clean out my knee... and perhaps they might find something (and fix something) that the MRI didn't show. I'll be on crutches for 2-3 days. Not too bad. I'll admit that I'm very nervous, but for peace of mind, I just need to do it. If I do physical therapy and then my knee hurts one day, I'm always going to wonder if something is going on that shouldn't be. I'll be calling tomorrow to schedule my appointment, but I'm thinking it will be in a couple weeks.

Thankfully I had appointments to check out wedding venues Friday afternoon - that was a much needed distraction from the nervousness of my impending surgery. Anna and Lisa went with me (THANK YOU SO MUCH). First we checked out Casa Larga.

Casa Larga

From the outside it looked ok, but once you get into the reception room, as Anna put it... it looked like vomit, haha. That's why I brought them!! That place is officially ruled out.

The second venue visit was to Shadow Lake. I originally was interested in the club house but that proved to be too big for the number of people we will have. Surprisingly I actually liked the tent option they had.

See the tent on the right?

If push came to shove I'd be fine getting married there. I liked the lake and all of the trees, but other than that there was nothing really special about it. I think the search will continue. :-)

Saturday was Job #2. Then I had the most resourceful shopping trip of my life. Thanks to the power of coupons I got all of this....

Sandals, Conditioner, Curl Styling Product, Mascara, Make-up Remover Wipes, and a Face Mask

... for $7.26!!!! Of all of those purchases I was most proud of the the sandals. Originally $34.95, I got them for a penny. ONE PENNY!!! :-) Saturday night was spent at the Distillery with Andy, Sarah, and Jon. I love hanging out with those two. We had so much fun - I am already counting down to when Sarah will get back from Turks and Caicos, and she hasn't even left yet!

And now it is Easter Sunday! I slept in :-) then made scones. I was very impressed with this because I actually had to knead the dough. They actually turned out really well... just like the ones I like from the fair.

Doughy goodness

Fisher Scone!

Then Andy and I headed to Buffalo where we had Easter dinner at his Grandmother's. We're about to head back now (have to work in the morning) so I better wrap this up. All in all, and good Easter - although I'm feeling a little uncomfortably stuffed. Hope you all had a Hoppy Easter!!!