My knee isn’t getting better.

It might be getting worse.

A visit to the Sports Doctor last Monday revealed no new information.  There is fluid on the knee, the x-ray doesn’t show anything, all of the manipulation tests are fine.  It could be an injury and the knee is swelling to protect it.  This seems to be what everyone is shooting for since it is just one knee.  We’ll actually need an MRI to try to determine the actual problem.  MRI’s can cost anywhere from a $1,000 to $3,000, which means we’d have to pay for it (we have a high out of pocket expense that has to be met first).  The doctor and I discussed it and decided to put off getting the MRI to see if the knee would get better.

On Monday while it was swollen it wasn’t too bad.  It started getting worse again on Tuesday.  I think in part because I stopped taking ibuprofen at her suggestion.  This let the inflammation return.  It seems that when I wake up in the morning the swelling has gone down but by the evening it is swollen up again, due to the activity we call going to work.

Obviously since I was hobbling around without being able to bend one leg very much I didn’t run or bike.  I opted for the “healing” time and didn’t do anything.  I’m getting fat and lazy.

Saturday morning Christy and I got up to help a friend man water stops.  A friend of ours is the local Team World Vision representative.  He has partnered with the Team Ortho Foundation as a Charity Partner. Part of the responsibility as a charity partner is to provide volunteers for water stops during Team Ortho’s training runs.  It was a great morning to run, but a little chilly to be standing around at the 5.5 mile mark/turn around point.  It was nice to chat with runners though and be part of it.  The highlights from the morning were getting to drive the Team Ortho truck (and learning more about their organization) and getting breakfast with a cool group of people at Moose & Sadie’s.

This week’s One Post is I Miss Trail Running.  I actually miss all kinds of running right now, but it has been especially hard to see posts and updates from my friends on their trail running this year.  It has been such a great spring for running….