It's Been A Long Day

So yes, I will admit that I have a Matchbox 20 CD and that I do occasionally listen to songs off of it. Now, with that said...

I was at the gym this morning walking on the treadmill, listening to my "cardio workout" playlist on my iPod, when Matchbox 20's Long Day came on. And I thought to myself, "No sh*t. This has been a 'long day.'"

See the reason I haven't blogged in a while and why I was walking on the treadmill and not running or participating in my normal Tuesday morning Body Attack class is because I'm having a knee issue.

In an attempt to not rehash every single detail of the past 4 1/2 weeks, I will leave it at this: I came back from Maine with some sort of injury to my knee. It began as something very minor, not painful, but instead just kind of annoying. However, that quickly turned into almost unbearable pain that forced a trip to the ER to get ultrasound-ed for possible blood clots (negative, thankfully) and at my lowest low, calling Mark in tears begging him to come home from work one day because I couldn't walk around without intense pain well enough to make Anthony lunch or to change his diaper.

The culprit? A Baker's cyst (I'd never heard of one either) located in the back of my knee that has apparently burst.

Yea, it's been fun. Especially with a very active (almost) 2-year old.

So in the last several weeks I've become a patient of an orthopedist and a rheumatologist in an attempt to figure out what caused the cyst so that a proper POA can be developed. Aren't you jealous? So far x-rays and MRIs haven't revealed anything spectacular, so I go back to the rheumatologist tomorrow to discuss the results of blood work that was done 2 weeks ago. Hopefully I'll have some answers at that point.

Until then, I'm loving my rheumatologist for giving me a shot of steroids 2 weeks ago that has allowed me to get back to sort-of-normal. At least I can walk around and climb stairs without grimacing in pain. But I still can't exert myself physically like normal. So after a 2-week hiatus (that was KILLING me!) on working out, I have returned to the gym but have to remind myself that I can't overdo it - at least not until we figure out what's going on.

So yea, it's been one hell of a long "day."