A Brief Visit to the Emergency Room

Thursday, February 16, 2006 at 4:02pm 5 comments (last by annie)

Last weekend, I woke on Saturday around 3:30am with the most intense pain you can imagine in my left knee. I spent a sleepless night trying to avoid bending my knee, the pain was so bad it made me dizzy. The hour and a half of sleep didn't help matters.

When he woke up, my roommate Walter took me to the emergency room.

The doctor asked what I'd done to injury my knee and I honestly don't know. I woke up in pain, I'd spent the night before watching the Olympic Opening Ceremonies with friends. Walter joked, this is what happened when you hit 30, you start having weird illnesses and injuries. I should still have a few months then!

The x-rays showed there wasn't any damage and they gave me an anti-inflamatory and a prescription for vicodin. Several days later my knee is back to normal and I still have no idea what I did to it.

5 Comments

setch Thursday, February 16, 2006 at 5:21pm

Watching the Olympics is what you did to it. Sympathy pain. Seriously, if I see pictures of people running, I get winded.

Kniwt Thursday, February 16, 2006 at 7:22pm

Yipes!! That's somewhat spooky and scary, but I'm glad to hear things seem back to normal now.

But what does this mean for your riding? This sounds like the type of thing a sports-medicine specialist should have a look at, sooner rather than later.

Are you planning on any of the training rides this weekend? I'm trying to see which ones work between my schedule and the unpredictable weather.

Mehranpolis Friday, February 17, 2006 at 2:36am

I am glad that you are fine now

Jamison Friday, February 17, 2006 at 9:34am

Thank you all,

If the weather holds out, I'm going on two rides this weekend, a short one Saturday and another one on Monday, with the Sunday's Tour of California kickoff at Justin Herman Plaza wedged between.

annie Friday, February 17, 2006 at 9:54am

Zoinks!! That sounds painful. I had a similar experience a few years ago - horrific pain in one knee that just kept getting worse and worse over about four days until I couldn't move my leg at all.... and like your pain, there was seemingly no cause for it. I was hobbling to the emergency room gritting my teeth in pain when all of a sudden, it stopped completely. Completely, as though none of the pain had ever happened, and it hasn't come back since. I've never understood what happened.