Last Saturday, September 6th Shawn and I spent some quality time at the hospital in Afton. Don't worry it was not an emergency, but I was starting to think so the more he started to hurt. We are still not sure exactly what happened, but that Friday night Shawn woke up around 11:30 or so with intense pain in his left knee. He got up and took some ibuprofen and watched t.v. for awhile until he fell back asleep on the couch.
Saturday morning his knee was still hurting, but he was not ready to see the doctor yet. Plus he had plans to go shoot his gun with a friend and did not want to miss the chance to shoot. But by the time we were done shooting his knee was hurting more and I had finally talked him into going to the doctor. However, living in the remote area we do the only place open with a doctor is the hospital in Afton. Well that or Jackson or Idaho Falls both which are further away plus no one in Jackson takes our insurance. So process of elimination brought us to Afton.
While at the hospital the pain really started to intensify. A couple of times I felt the tears coming to my eyes. I have such a hard time seeing anybody in pain. The doctor couldn't really tell us what was wrong, so he ordered x-rays. Upon seeing the x-rays we were told that the knee cap was not where it was suppose to be. The doctor wrote a prescription for oxycodone, put a brace on it, gave us crutches, and set up an appointment for an MRI. Which we were told was the only way to know what exactly was going on with his knee.
The MRI was scheduled for Monday so in the mean time we kept Shawn doped up on pain killers and rested. It was a long weekend with not much sleep. We went to the hospital Monday for the MRI, but was told it would be a few days before the whole MRI process would have an answer.
Shawn saw the orthopedic specialist on Wednesday to find out what exactly the MRI said, but living in the remote area we do he was told that it had not been transcribed yet. But the doctor said that it appeared to him that Shawn strained his knee and nothing more. Strained what in his knee exactly we don't know. So unless the transcribed MRI says something different that was the prognosis. The GREAT NEWS was no surgery. That doctor gave him a much smaller knee brace and sent him to therapy. Shawn has since quit taking the pain killers had a couple more sessions of therapy and will do a follow-up appointment tomorrow (Wednesday the 17th).
All we can figure is he injured his knee while working on his knees that Friday and not sure why it waited numerous hours to start hurting!?! Meanwhile he is looking forward to going back to work and for his knee to feel good enough to go hunting. I will keep you posted on what the doctor says at the upcoming appointment.
Saturday morning his knee was still hurting, but he was not ready to see the doctor yet. Plus he had plans to go shoot his gun with a friend and did not want to miss the chance to shoot. But by the time we were done shooting his knee was hurting more and I had finally talked him into going to the doctor. However, living in the remote area we do the only place open with a doctor is the hospital in Afton. Well that or Jackson or Idaho Falls both which are further away plus no one in Jackson takes our insurance. So process of elimination brought us to Afton.
While at the hospital the pain really started to intensify. A couple of times I felt the tears coming to my eyes. I have such a hard time seeing anybody in pain. The doctor couldn't really tell us what was wrong, so he ordered x-rays. Upon seeing the x-rays we were told that the knee cap was not where it was suppose to be. The doctor wrote a prescription for oxycodone, put a brace on it, gave us crutches, and set up an appointment for an MRI. Which we were told was the only way to know what exactly was going on with his knee.
The MRI was scheduled for Monday so in the mean time we kept Shawn doped up on pain killers and rested. It was a long weekend with not much sleep. We went to the hospital Monday for the MRI, but was told it would be a few days before the whole MRI process would have an answer.
Shawn saw the orthopedic specialist on Wednesday to find out what exactly the MRI said, but living in the remote area we do he was told that it had not been transcribed yet. But the doctor said that it appeared to him that Shawn strained his knee and nothing more. Strained what in his knee exactly we don't know. So unless the transcribed MRI says something different that was the prognosis. The GREAT NEWS was no surgery. That doctor gave him a much smaller knee brace and sent him to therapy. Shawn has since quit taking the pain killers had a couple more sessions of therapy and will do a follow-up appointment tomorrow (Wednesday the 17th).
All we can figure is he injured his knee while working on his knees that Friday and not sure why it waited numerous hours to start hurting!?! Meanwhile he is looking forward to going back to work and for his knee to feel good enough to go hunting. I will keep you posted on what the doctor says at the upcoming appointment.
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