Well, I hate that we are here, but at least we live in a time where we have the technology to look inside without committing to surgery. Mijo and his knee seemed to be doing okay, he hadn't complained, and we ask him about every day how it is feeling. It was therefore surprising that I got a text from his trainer on Monday that she did not think his knee was improving. She herself was out for a week, so maybe he hadn't worked with her for a few days, but she came back this week and started him on new exercises and he was unable to show motion with the knee without wincing in some pain.
Her belief is that he should be showing signs of improvement by now. Honestly it has been a month since we saw the specialist, so he has had about 6 weeks since the event that caused the injury. About the only thing we can do at this point is do the next thing suggested by the specialist and that is look at the knee with an MRI tool, which will look through the skin and show any damage to the muscle/tissue around the knee area. I hate that we are here, but the doctor did give us a sliver of hope, if nothing is damaged and it is still just the bruise, he might suggest a cortisone shot, which is another name for a steroid shot.
What I understand is that the steroid shot would numb the pain, so he could use the knee like he normally would and not feel the pain and back away from it. I am guessing if it is a tear, he would not do this, but with a bruise, there is no further damage he could do, it is just the pain receptors getting in the way, not that I am an expert.
We have to wait until tomorrow for the results. The MRI was done rather unorthodox, we were scheduled at 7:30am. I wasn't sure whether I would go in with him, so I got up at 6:00am and showered. Had I known I would just sit in the waiting room outside, I wouldn't have bothered. Mijo said the procedure was easy, he just laid there and almost fell asleep as the machine did all the work. He was probably in the room for about 30 minutes. He came out just in time, some idiot lady had her "service dog" with her in the waiting room, but she let go of the leash and he walked all around the room, at one point coming and sniffing me. It was a big labrador too, I was expecting it to dump a big ole shit on the floor, she just looked like that type of lady.
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