Dr's report

I am almost hesitant to do this, because it almost feels like I am fishing for sympathy, and that is surely not the case. Like GamblerZ said, it's cathartic to post sometimes.

so, I took my watermelon-size knee back to the ortho this morning. The swelling is taking over my whole leg, ankle, and foot. The PA looked me over, poked and prodded, and offered 2 solutions. We can try to drain the fluid, but that will also result in losing some of the Synvisc in the process. The other thing is to do nothing and wait for it to go down on it's own and watch for signs of infection. And then of course I'd still go for the 3rd injection next wednesday. If it is still as swollen as it is now he would not inject any more fluid into the knee. The Synvisc people say this kind of reaction happens in about 3% of patients using their product, and I am the first person in this practice to have an adverse reaction. They do an average of 15 Synvisc injections a week. Lucky me, huh?

But my day did get better. After I had the injection on wednesday and felt fine, I bought lift tickets for me and my son for tomorrow. Actually my husband went and got them, way out of his way too. Way sweet! Then I woke up yesterday and when I saw my knee, my first thought was that I would not be able to ski on saturday. Sure enough, on the tickets in huge, bold, capital letters "NO REFUNDS, NO EXCHANGE." So I called the store and explained my situation to the manager who was only too happy to offer me a refund or letting me switch to a future trip! Sweet! I didn't even have to grovel LOL So I picked another trip and am definately a satisfied customer.

I'm concerned about one of the races on my "to do" list. It is exactly 6 months from now, and that's how long the relief lasted from my first series of Synvisc. So, if I sign up, you know I'll be going thru this again in 6 months. If I don't sign up, the race sells out and I am fine, kicking myself for not signing up.

So, if you're still reading, what would you do?