The Six Million Dollar Man

Friday is finally here. I thought the week would never end! I was so tied up with work that I hardly had time to even breath. It was a really frenzied 10 days for me and I'm glad it's over. I still do have quite a bit of work to complete but at least I can do them at my own pace.

I'm really looking forward to the end of the day and to the weekend especially. I'm just going to stay home and do absolutely nothing. Maybe sleep in late (not very likely with my younger boy around), maybe laze on the couch and watch tv (again not very likely cos the boys will hijack the tv for their Saturday morning cartoons). Gee, maybe I'll just sleep all day ... LOL!

I'm hoping to have an easy day today and so far it looks like it's heading in that direction. Nothing to stress me out has happened yet and I hope nothing will. And even if some doofus client calls, I won't let them get the better of my nerves. I've had my nerves frayed enough the past week or so to last me two lifetimes! I even have a lunch date with wifey later so I'm really looking forward to that as well ... :D

But one thing I really need to do is go get my left knee checked out pretty soon. I've been having this pain in my left knee for a very long time and in recent weeks it's kinda getting worse. Ok, maybe not kinda, it IS getting worse. My knees have always been a problem ever since I took up running all those years ago.

It's basically a common problem with anyone who runs. All that pounding the knees take when you hit that asphalt will eventually one day catch up with you and give you problems like these. And no matter what kind of high tech fancy schmancy running shoe you have, it never really is enough to cushion the pounding all that much, especially if you run seriously hard.

But that isn't the only reason contributing to this pain in my knee. The amount of times I hit that knee real hard on the sides of tables, beds, cabinets, edge of the car door and whatnots could fill a whole novel. And these were not soft knocks mind you. There were hard enough to bring tears to my eyes! I'm sure most of you would have hit your knees on stuff like these once in a blue moon, right? Well, a careless doofus like me can hit my knee on stuff at least once a day, minimum!

I can't even count the number of times I have hit my knee on the edge of my bed. When I have the urge to pee at night, I'll walk to the bathroom in pitch darkness and even while doing my business I wouldn't switch on the bathroom light. And I aim pretty well in the dark, just in case you're all wondering ... LOL! Then I'd groggily head back to bed and on more than one occasion I have slammed my knee (especially the left one) on the sharp edge of the bed, leaving me in absolute mind numbing pain.

I'd be standing there not able to move and trying so hard not to scream in pain and wake everyone up. I've done that so many times that you'd think I should be more careful in my bathroom excursions at night by now. I think that and a whole load of other knockings have totally ruined this knee to the point that it's worrisome these days.

There are days when the knee works just fine and there are days when I'm walking up the stairs and it's just give way from under me. And when that happens, I'll feel this jolt or snap, for want of a better word and I would have to hobble up the stairs like an old man! It doesn't happen everyday but it's beginning to happen more often that I am getting a little, no make that a LOT more worried. In fact, it's hurting right now even as I write this post and I know it's going to hurt when I walk downstairs later.

I need to go get some professional help and get the knee X-rayed or something. I think it's begining to lead to something a little more serious than old age. My right knee seems fine, just the left one. It's put paid to my running career (or what little I had of it the past months that is). I know I can't put on my running shoes and go running until I find out what's wrong with it. I don't want to go running and have the knee give out from under me and have to get the security guards send me home on their motorbikes or something.

Wifey has been nagging me to get it checked for quite sometime but being the boneheaded typical male that I am, I've been putting it off for sometime thinking it will go away on it's own. But it's been months and there is no sign of it ever 'going away'. In fact, it's just getting worse each day. I try to not put too much pressure on it but unfortunately I also drive a manual car and the darn clutch happens to be controlled with the left foot. And the fact that I have to drive for appointments most of the time doesn't contribute to the well being of that knee.

What I'm worried about going for a check up is I am sure they're probably going to discover something really horrible with it and tell me it needs to be operated on and replace some part of something in there, drill some screws and such and I've seen a medical show on tv before about knee operations and it was so darn painful to just watch them drill this poor guys knee and insert stuff into it. And it took a hell of a long time for it to heal. And I am afraid of pain like that!

I wonder if they could give me a bionic knee or something, maybe they could even rebuild me like that Steve Austin fellow. You know, 'Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive, we can rebuild him, we have the technology ...' and all that. Though I don't suppose it would still cost only six million these days, ya? LOL! But bionics or not, I do have to get this knee checked out pretty soon before it even gets worse. And this time I can't blame this pain on old age ... siggghhh ...

That aside, Have a great weekend folks :D
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