This winter has been very painful for me.

In September, as I was locking the house up before going to bed, I turned right my foot slightly to turn around and suddenly a very sharp, stabbing pain attacked me behind the knee.  I could not put my foot down without extreme pain.  I was able to make it to bed finally and thought I somehow had severly sprained it.

So for the next two weeks, I reduced my activity.  But the pain remained.  Finally, my hubby had to take me to the ER.  They checked my knee and felt I had a Bakers cyst.  An ultrasound was ordered at a separate building the next night.  And I was directed to go see an orthopaedic surgeon.

I had an appt the following week to see him.  I went and he said not a Baker's cyst but he suspected I tore my meniscus pad.  So I had an X-ray done and an MRI was scheduled.

The same day after I had my MRI done, I get a call from my doc's nurse who said that I did have a torn meniscus and needed to schedule surgery.  He only did surgeries on Wed so I was looking at Dec.  I asked her to checked for something earlier because I couldn't stand the pain.  She looked at Nov again and did find one at Nov 3.

So Nov 3, I went in and under as an outpatient.  I woke up as they were wheeling me out of surgery.  In recovery, my doc came to me and said that I had a lot more going on than the one meniscus tear.  The other meniscus was overlapping the bone.  I had bone spurs on the patella and the femur.  And the cartilage was feathered and he had to fix it.

OKay, here I am healing up at home and now because of the winter sun, I am starting to get migraines.  They are stabbing me over my right eyebrow as usual. 

Then in the middle of the night, I wake up and sit on the edge of the bed and get hit with vertigo.  Before I know it, I end up "diving" into the vertigo and pass out. 

Hubby calls out my name till I come to.  My head and knee are throbbing.  I look down at my knee and it's bleeding.  Apparently, there was a broken plastic CD case on the floor and my recently operated on knee landed on it.  So I had streaks of blood across my knee.

I'm still having migraines from the bright sunlight.  But I have to be more careful about where I am.  Vertigo is the extreme of my migraine attacks.  And I am so tired of all of them.