Today was very odd. I didn’t feel well most of the day but I
knew I had to buck it up because I had to get a biopsy (in my breast) today.
Thankfully, I felt a little better after a late breakfast.
So to get to the meat of the story: I was in
the hospital gown waiting to be called for the biopsy and I found myself
crying. The odd bit was that I wasn’t crying about having to have the
procedure. What happened was, the place where I had to wait was a narrow hallway and I had
to scoot my feet back a bit so no one would trip over them and it tweaked my
knee enough to hurt a bit. This got me to thinking about how bad my quality of
life has been since I had the accident around 10 years ago and how it sucked
that I was never able to see a doctor about it to get my knees seen to. And now it’s too late because all doctors see
my knee pain as is a weight issue but I’m like,
“No, I injured them. There must
be something that can be done.”
“Lose some weight and things should get better.”
“Well, I did lose some weight, quite a bit in fact, and
there was absolutely no change in my knees.”
Actually, that last sentence, I haven’t had the chance to
say to any doctor yet. But I don’t feel hopeful that it’ll make any difference. I really wish I had been taken to the emergency room even if I had no money to pay for it. I would gladly be up to my eyeballs in debt right now if it meant that walking, sitting and generally anything knee-related didn't hurt like a motherfucker.
So yeah, that’s why I was crying at my biopsy appointment. I had to tell the nurse why I was crying so that she didn't think she had a hysterical, needle-fearing patient who was freaked out about possibly having cancer.
The biopsy itself went rather well… well, on my end because
I didn’t have any pain at all except for in my arm for having to hold it up for
so long. The doctor did have to go pretty deep with a long thick needle that made weird sounds and an even weirder thumping. Even now, I feel okay though they said I might have some pain and
bruising and that I’ll have to take it easy for a couple of days.
I think I can manage that.
P.S. I know it's been a horribly long time since I've made any blog posts. I guess I'll talk more about that later. Maybe.