Knee Woes

These last few months with my knee have been really interesting. On average, my knee is dislocating about 5 times per day, and it will dislocate 3 out of 4 directions. And, something inside my knee keeps getting hung up, on something else in there & I have to jiggle it loose constantly. It literally feels like I am having to balance the bones on top of each other very, very carefully with each step I take. If you didn't know, I had multiple surgeries on my left knee when I was a senior in High School. (Someday, I will have to tell the entire story about how I hurt my knee because it is actually quite an amazing story of how God used my painful/ frustrating situation for his good....but, that story is for another day.) After my last surgery, my knee doctor informed me that he felt like I would probably need a knee replacement within 20 years because the damage had been so severe. Well, I made it 13 years.

I hurt my knee that last week we were in Mn going up & down all of our stairs packing for the move. Since then, it has just gotten worse & worse. I made an appointment pretty soon after we moved back & the soonest my doctor could see me is the 30th of Aug. The newest development is severely crazy. On top of all the dislocating & things getting stuck...I now have a lump??? The lump will fall down from somewhere in the top of my knee cap, down to the side of my knee cap. When it does that, it almost completely restricts any movement at all. To bend my knee again, I have to physically push the little lump back up where it came from. When this first started, it only happened a few times per day, but now it happens with every 10th step or so. Have you ever heard of such a thing??? Talk about bizarre. I will keep you posted about what the doc says after I see him.

The Wii Addict

When Aunt Hettie comes down to visit us, the first thing Dawson asks her is "Did you bring your GAME?????" He loves to play video games & is really quite obsessed with the Wii. So, it is a good thing that he only gets to play every once in awhile. The funny part is that he is HILARIOUS to watch when he is playing. He is actually really good, but he just has his own very interesting methods of playing.

I posted two funny videos of him playing two different games. Video #1: Dawson playing Mario Kart. His feet are obviously the main focus here...I love how during the stressful parts of the game, his feet will go faster/slower or how he flexes his toes! Video #2: Dawson playing Wii boxing. Again, the feet are going crazy...and the arms are going crazy too! Too funny! He is just so serious about it.




While we were on vacation in Galveston, he had been playing the boxing game for awhile & had made it passed several different opponents. Then, he finally beat one guy that he thought was really hard to beat. Very enthusiastically, he yelled at the opponent on TV, "LAY LIKE A BIRD IN YOUR BED...SON!" We all began laughing hysterically at his random outburst, and one of us managed to ask him through our laughter "Dawson, what in the world does that mean?" He shrugged nonchalantly & simply said "It means I beat him."