Knee'd! My latest

Beckdawrek
Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:44:57 +0000
Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share

No, not baking bread or trying to trick my junior scrabble players, to believe, that kneed is really a word.

I didn’t fight off an attacker.

A few days ago I woke up on the floor. It was tossy, turny kinda night.
I flexed and felt around. I seemed basically, ok.
So I got up and sat on my bed. Feeling a little discombobulated. I put my hands on my knees to put my head down. Ouch!
My left knee hurted.
I looked. Already a knot swelling up.
I stretched my leg out. It worked.
I reached for my phone to read my CGM blood sugar level. It was low, but not alarmingly so.
I do the “dawning” thing often. So that’s always my first concern.
By then Ivy had come in. She went Mother hen/Nurse Cratchet immediately.
She said, in her vast medical knowledge, “Knee boo-boo”.
You don’t say? I been knee-d!

It didn’t hurt walking at all. It hurt if I bumped it. I was being extra lazy because of it. Ivy was on to me. She has no sympathy for me, or my “boo-boo”
Hah! Next morning, my whole knee is black an blue and has a golf ball size knot toward the inside of my leg.
Lemme see her not have sympathy now!
She was sufficiently alarmed at the sight of it. She asks can I walk?
I was tempted, for a brief moment to really milk this. I was a bit alarmed, myself.
I could walk, no pain.
The large swelling bumped my other leg occasionally. But that was all.

It hurts if you poke it.
Ivy likes to poke on things. She poked 3 times. I told her “Poke one more time and I’m gonna poke you in the eye!”

Anywhoo, we decide I don’t need an urgent care visit. Did ice all weekend.

Monday at dialysis they made noises about going for Xrays. I nixxed that.
If it hurt to walk, I’d feel differently. Structurally its fine.
Looks like hell.

Today at dialysis the NP was there. They had her come in to look at my knee.
Asked me a dozen questions.

More concerned with whether I had a fall due to low glucose or my head thing than what it did to me to fall outta bed.
I told her I was dreaming and was thrown outta bed. She looked skeptical.

So I ask, “How can I help my knee not hurt if its touched or bumped?”

She said to use Voltaren. Sparingly.
I bought some.

Seriously, is this stuff safe to use?
Reading the insert tells me its dangerous poison that shouldn’t be on a store shelf, much less on my boo-boo knee.
And how do you “measure” it out? With the little plastic guide ruler thingy? Seemed, rather a loose rule on amounts.
“Sparingly” was not a choice.
“Don’t use as much high on the body”

What if I sit with my knees pulled up. Is that just out?

I’m not sure this stuff is safe.
I know lots of people use it.

Is it safe?
Is it indicated for bruising?
Did I waste my money? 'Cause it ain’t cheap, folks.

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