Eight Lives Left

I saw the doctor this afternoon about my knee. He told me that I had patellar tendinitis and pre-patellar bursitis. The tendinitis is the tendons over the kneecap being inflamed and sore. For the bursitis, it turns out that there is a little sac over the kneecap to protect it, and mine is swollen and sore and full of blood. When I talked about my knee being squishy I was right! It was squishy with BLOOD! Ew!

Anyway, pretty much the only treatment is to take Aleve and let it heal on its own. He said it seemed to be healing up already and that I should just keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn’t actually get infected, but he didn’t think it would. Then he went onto Google and pulled up pictures of inflamed knees for me to look at and it was a lot of fun. My doctor is very very cool.

I also got scripts for Vicodin and Xanax so I can quit the caffeine cold turkey yet again. I quit and stay clean for two or three years and then I get back on it and have to quit again. This is to help with the three days of puking migraines that will ensue when I cut off the supply of Diet Pepsi. After I quit this time I should be good until 2010 or so.