I want to thank you all for your prayers for my surgery! It went very well! I don’t know if I had mentioned but I have had knee pain on & off since I was around 10 yrs old. The past 2.5 years it has been pretty constant, sometimes getting better but anytime I try to start exercising again the pain starts. Since then I have had on & off physical therapy & two MRI’s. Nothing has ever shown up! The only thing they did know is I had a relatively large piece of medial plica in my knee that was inflamed & just maybe that was causing all the problems. He also thought maybe my knee cap needed to be smoothed out. But really surgery was just to exploratory because he had no idea & no options remained!
Well, praise be to God that I went through with this surgery! All along I have had a meniscus tear!! I have needed surgery all along to fix it but it was always hiding on the MRI’s. In the past 2.5 years I have seen a few doctors who all thought I had a meniscus tear but could never find one. Well they were right all along! I wish I would have had surgery 2.5 years ago!! I am not a medical person so none of what I am going to write is really surgery related, but feel free to skim or not read at all 
because I am writing it all down so I can have it since I use my blog basically as my journal since I am not good at keeping paper ones!
I am just so thankful that I went through with it. I was worried {& didn’t sleep at all Thursday night} because the only surgery I have ever had is my wisdom teeth. I am one who is always “going & going” and the thought of spending an entire weekend in bed isn’t one I like, haha. Actually on the way home I was complaining I just needed my bed & my mom made me eat a Sonic blast {normally I wouldn’t ever have to be asked twice!} and then when I got home somehow I decided I would hop up to my room and be more comfortable than the couch.
I have been lying/sitting here ever since with my trusty little sidekick {i.e. Pancake} who has spent much of her time sleeping while I have been awake. Most medicines that are supposed to knock you out have the opposite affect on me, which really stinks. I’d rather be sleeping through the pain.
Thankfully I have amazing nurses{i.e. my mother & my sister} who have been incredibly nice to get me everything I need & to bring Pancake outside & back up My mom even sat up here & ate dinner with me just to keep me company. I wish I could say the same of my brother, haha. I was actually up at about 2:30 and really wanted juice. He stays up really late on the weekend so when he was up I asked him for juice and he just told me no. I think he felt bad {but not too bad} because he then went downstairs & brought the entire carton up. Of course, he placed it on my tray table at the furthest possible corner I could reach, what a brother! Then I felt horrible because I called my mom {I have been using my cell phone as my bell} at 3:00am to see if I could have more medicine because it really isn’t working and she brought up new ice packs.
All in all I am completely blessed because this is a very routine surgery & I am always aware that things could be much, much worse. God is truly amazing to have given me the best doctor who did everything he could and then found what he needed to which gives me hope for being knee pain free {or in a lot less pain} eventually. Hopefully I will even be able to get back into running!
Anyway, I hope you all have a terrific weekend & thank you for your prayers!