Welcome To Earth David

…………. but it still hurts like hell!! I got tired of wearing the bandages and that stupid leg brace so I took all that crap off of my leg this morning so my leg could “breathe” and so I could see how my knee is doing. The swelling has gone down some but it’s pretty bruised up as I had expected that it would be. Looks like I’ll be getting lots of bed rest this week.

If any of you out there have been keeping up on my website you would know that I recently started trying to get into shape. Well everything has been going ok up until last night. I’ve been going for walks, and started back into jogging again. Well last night I went jogging and tripped up over my own damn foot and landed on my left knee. I ended having to go to the hospital emergency room. Luckily the x-ray’s didn’t show any fractures. This is the doctors diagnosis of the damage I did to my knee. Diagnosis: BURSITIS - basically this is a small flat liquid filled sack that helps the gliding motion of the muscles and tendons over a joint which has been severely inflamed due to injury…. in other word I busted my knee pretty bad when I fell.

The doctor put me on bed rest and I’m supposed to keep my leg elevated and I’m not supposed to be walking around……. but I am not one to lay around on my ass if absolutely don’t have….. well in this case I’m supposed but I just can’t. This morning after I went into work and told my boss what happened I took the day off and then I went to buy a lottery ticket and then I went and spent the whole morning at the lake. The weather was just absolutely beautiful and those of you who know me knows how much I love going to the lake on a pretty day…. so I couldn’t help myself.

Anyway, now I’m at home laying in bed, working on my website, surfing the internet, chillin’ out in front of the air-conditioner and resting like I’m should be doing. The doctor gave me four huge loratab pills for pain but I have not taken any of them, nor any other pain medicine. I figure if I can walk on my leg and not scream bloody murder then I don’t need the pain pills. So anyway there are some pictures below so that you can see what I did and the stupid leg brace I have to wear for the next few days.

I am kinda sad about this because I don’t know how long this is going to take to heal and the reason it makes me sad is because I was just really getting to exercising again and was soon hoping to start doing a little weight lifting. Now all of that will have to be put aside until I get better. Also I may have to take some time off from work because of this and that ain’t good!