My knees!!!

[Jamastiene]

I know it's going to rain just by how they feel. Long story:
One morning, the local television station had on the bottom of the screen that my college classes would be open as normal after an ice/sleet thingy. It wasn't really a storm, but more of a layer of ice.

Not being smart first thing in the morning, I didn't think about the ice being such a thin invisible layer on my porch/deck/ramp thingy. I never wake up until after at least an hour of being out of bed. My brain takes that long to adjust to the horrible state of "awake at 7:00 in the morning after forcing myself to sleep at night. OMFG, the horror of it all."

Well, I went bopping my half awake ass out the door without thinking. We don't get much snow/ice/sleet crap around here. I didn't expect the Barney Fife move I would be doing halfway down the ramp.

Somehow, I fell hard (and I mean Earthy shaking, ice breaking, kneecap breaking, neighborhood quaking hard. I somehow fell hard on my right knee and twisted the Hell (and heard a bad bad cracking sound) out of my left knee. The right knee got all swollen and hurt, but I could walk on the right leg ok.

Something went wrong with my left knee. That twisty cracking thing never quite got better. So, I do have a slight limp now. It's not overly noticeable but it's there.

Now, when it's going to rain or be overcast, that left knee hurts like holy fucking hell. The right knee throbs, but the left knee feels just like it just did that twisty cracking thing again.

Tonight, it's hurting. It is going to rain. I just know it.

[Jamastiene]

1. Yep, just checked.

There is a storm due around 7:00 am my time. That's about an hour from now. I knew it.

[MissHoneychurch]

2. Have you ever

had a doc check it out?

[Jamastiene]

5. No, I couldn't afford to go to the doctor about it.

I hobbled through the day in classes that day and for several days afterward. Now, it hurts when it's going to rain. Whatever happened to it never "undid." Whatever it was, it's felt funny to me ever since.

[TexasLady]

3. It's weird isn't it?

Since having my surgery to remove my leg, the stump also hurts like a sonofagun as well when it is about to rain. I hear it will probably stay the rest of my life.

And you really described the horrible pain of twisting the hell out of your knee very well! When did you hurt it?

[Jamastiene]

6. It was 3 years ago.

I haven't been right since. I don't have any insurance. So, I just hobbled through the day and went on.

Wow, have you had phantom leg syndrome yet? My aunt still has her legs, but has no feeling in them...normally. At night, she has me come scratch them when a part itches or move them for her. She has the progressive form of MS. Everything is weird for her with that disease. She'll feel stuff that is not there and not feel stuff that is there.

If you search Richard Pryor's comments about what it was like for him, my aunt's symptoms are the same way. Some people have this progressive form of it and it really is weird for some people. If I hand my aunt a cold drink, it feels burning hot to her. So, I have to warm anything to room temperature.

She normally doesn't feel her legs, but can feel her feet sometimes.

[old mark]

4. J, I broke my right femur when I was in the Army in 1968.

It still feels throbby in damp weather, and we are getting the same rainstorm later this morning up here in the great North.

mark

[Jamastiene]

7. It's painful.

It looks like doctors would have figured out by now how to relieve that specific kind of pain, or at least acknowledge it and work on it.

I'm sorry to hear you go through this too. :hug:

[old mark]

10. We got your rain, looks like till Sunday at least.

I usually carry a small bottle of aspirin with me - I had 8 broken bones just in my right leg, and I get uncomfortable sometimes.
Ya gotta watch out for that little bit of ice!

mark

[no name no slogan]

8. I get that way too

It's the change in air pressure and humidity that does it for me. I can usually feel it in my head, and I'm rarely wrong.

[skygazer]

9. You probably have arthritis in it now

Probably caused some damage in there that opened it up for arthritis. I can predict the weather too - I'm usually around 24 hours ahead of the storm with my pain level. My arthritis doc tells me it's the change in barometric pressure (gives me migraines too).

I wonder what meterorologists make?