My Journey with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

"On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived."

- Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Monday, August 22, 2011

Knee News

I got some very good news at the Cleveland Clinic, my meniscus isn't torn. I have developed a bursa where my MPFL graft was anchored on the inside of my knee. My surgeon thought that a cortisone shot wouldn't be as beneficial in my case because my pain is too general. Basically, all I need to do is mange my pain. Ice my knee, and not over do things. It's really nice and comforting to know that my knee looks really well and that this pain isn't doing any damage, which is what everyone was worried about. I occasionally have discomfort under my knee cap, which isn't doing any damage now, but that is pain that I have to respect and not push through.

I'm excited to be able to move in the direction of actually working out again.
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