Tuesday, April 6, 2010

17.4 lbs down!

2.6 more lbs. to 20!

Back on that horse

After a four week absence, I'm back.  I injured my knee a few weeks ago and I stopped exercising.  No fun 6:30 am sessions on the elliptical at UCSF's Bakar Gym with Paige or Mondays and Wednesdays at Diakadi with Shelby.  My knee was the size of a grapefruit and I wasn't taking any chances.  It was ice, ibuprofen and immobility for me.  And then I did something that I don't usually do...I went to see an orthopedic surgeon.

I've had my knee worked on before.  You go to the doctor, they move your knee around, they give you orders to get a MRI and see you in a few days or a week later to discuss the results.  That didn't happen this time.  I saw the doctor for ten minutes, she moved my leg around, she sent me down to radiology for an on the spot MRI, I went into the MRI tube for twenty minutes, came back to the doctor's office and discussed my results thirty minutes later.  I have a hole where my ACL should be.  My ACL is missing.  Poof!  Gone!  I'm sure it's on a beach somewhere in Hawaii.  I don't want to consider the alternative...it's flapping around somewhere in my upper calf.

In by 9, out by noon with orders for surgery.  I'm having my ACL replaced with cadaver tissue in June 3rd.

And now for the good news, despite my lack of exercise I've lost more weight.  I'm down to 238.2 lbs!