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.