Kuala Lumpur June 2024 "Knee problems"
20/06/24 08:53
I had just got into bed when something bad happened in my knee. Now my left leg is the one I injured two years ago and it has never fully recovered its shape. That doesn't stop me walking or getting through my daily life but it is noticeably weaker than the right leg and as a result I don't expect to be doing any more running in my life. But it still works and for 95% of the day I don't notice there is any difference between the two legs or more specifically their knees. So this evening, having gone to bed as normal, I lay awake for a few minutes and during that time decided to stretch my legs out to their full extent. As I did so I felt something snap in my left knee! I lay quite still and contemplated what I had just experienced. Never had that happen before and there had been no prior warning signs. I slowly bent my knee and as I did so I could feel something moving in the knee that shouldn't be there. My mind raced through the probabilities and quickly dismissed this being a bone problem. It was definitely cartridge that had become detached, perhaps something resulting from my injury two years ago but whatever it was I could feel it there in my knee occupying a space where it shouldn't be. I tried to stretch out my leg once more but as it straightened I could feel both pain and resistance in my knee. I tried a few times but didn't want to risk causing further damage. It was late, I was tired and needed to sleep so there was just one thing I could do and that was to pray for an overnight miracle recovery!
When I awoke next morning I carried out a full assessment of the damaged knee. The 'loose bit' was still there and every time I straightened that knee I could feel it rubbing against the knee cap or side of the knee. It was quite disconcerting and I could do little more than hobble around the house. Well I wasn't going to have that problem for the rest of my life. I prayed for a complete recovery for my knee and the removal or reattachment of the broken bit so it no longer interfered with my ability to walk. To assist me during the day I wore a compression knee bandage and the combination of those two things immediately worked wonders. I could now only feel the loose bit moving in my knee about once every fifty steps instead of once in five and it was mildly interesting to see how I still limped in the expectation of there being a problem rather than only when that problem occurred. By the evening I felt confident enough to go for a long walk and there were only two instances where I noted the problem was still there. So that night I went to bed with prayers of thanks for the healing of my knee.
The next morning, two days after something had come loose, I stretched out my leg without a problem. That is I could stretch it out to its fullest extent and whatever had been causing me a problem the previous day had gone. I got up and went to put the bandage on my knee and then decided not to. I could feel there was nothing there so it would be best to see for how long I could walk without worry. The answer was all day, it had gone, whatever had been bothering me the day before either was now out of my knee (or at least out of the way of the moving bits). I thanked the Lord for my healing and got on with my daily life.
When I awoke next morning I carried out a full assessment of the damaged knee. The 'loose bit' was still there and every time I straightened that knee I could feel it rubbing against the knee cap or side of the knee. It was quite disconcerting and I could do little more than hobble around the house. Well I wasn't going to have that problem for the rest of my life. I prayed for a complete recovery for my knee and the removal or reattachment of the broken bit so it no longer interfered with my ability to walk. To assist me during the day I wore a compression knee bandage and the combination of those two things immediately worked wonders. I could now only feel the loose bit moving in my knee about once every fifty steps instead of once in five and it was mildly interesting to see how I still limped in the expectation of there being a problem rather than only when that problem occurred. By the evening I felt confident enough to go for a long walk and there were only two instances where I noted the problem was still there. So that night I went to bed with prayers of thanks for the healing of my knee.
The next morning, two days after something had come loose, I stretched out my leg without a problem. That is I could stretch it out to its fullest extent and whatever had been causing me a problem the previous day had gone. I got up and went to put the bandage on my knee and then decided not to. I could feel there was nothing there so it would be best to see for how long I could walk without worry. The answer was all day, it had gone, whatever had been bothering me the day before either was now out of my knee (or at least out of the way of the moving bits). I thanked the Lord for my healing and got on with my daily life.