So today I have good news, good news, and bad news. All about me. Eventually I’ll find the time to overhaul this site so it can be all about House, KP, Cliff, and whoever else gets posting access. For now, you’re stuck with me.
To begin week six on the 12 week plan I’m down to 178. That puts me eight pounds for the six weeks, 16 since January, and 62 since I was at my highest a few years back. Which brings me to the good news / bad news.
I had highlighted the fact previously that I’d had an incident with a metal chair at Mucho Burrito that resulted in some rather pronounced pain on my right knee cap. It had taken place at the end of week one of this plan, but I was focused enough to work through it and keep on going. I did, however, submit to an x-ray and ultrasound. The x-ray came back clear, and the ultrasound showed fluid in both knees and calcification where the upper tendon joins the knee on the right leg. Not great news, but good for me in knowing that the long-standing patella-femoral syndrome seems to have almost disappeared, meaning my knees may actually have lining again rather than just grinding bone on bone.
That said, the pain remains and I’m now being scheduled for an MRI in about a month. The word is if they find something in the MRI I’m likely to go under the knife to fix it. If they don’t find anything, I’m still likely to go under the knife. So it appears I’m destined for surgery at this point. In the meantime my gym trainers have kindly tweaked the program on short notice to lessen the impact on the knees so I can continue through the second half of the plan. I’ll keep you posted!