The Plateau

You know you have poor control over your dog when you call and call and then you see her tearing across the neighborhood. In Sparta's case, she was chasing rabbits and there wasn't much I could do except wait for her to get tired, notice that I was calling for her and come back.

Today has been a rough day. I've been concerned about the state of my knee. I've been working so hard trying to stretch and strengthen my knee but none of it seems to be working. I've been thinking that there might be something else wrong with my knee (other than the fact I had surgery). It just feels like there is something inside it that keeps rubbing. It used to be a larger area. It has gotten smaller but hasn't gone away. At my last clinical, there was some joking about my possibly having a cyclops lesion. Now it doesn't seem to be out of the realm of possiblity. A cyclops lesion is an area of scar tissue that forms in the middle of the knee, usually in the intercondylar notch. One of the main signs is a loss of extension (which I have). If I do have something like this, it means that I'll have to have surgery again to remove the offending tissue.

If anything, I've hit a plateau. Since February and now into March I haven't seen much improvement.

So I'm calling in reinforcements. I am already seeing my ortho doc next Monday. I'm also going to my regular doc for a physical therapy script and a referral for an MRI. Between all these things, something has to be figured out. Whether it is more conditioning, some manual therapy, or going under the knife again, who knows?