My birthday finally over but in this post, I will not be sharing about my birthday but about this special topic of my post.Some of you may think that this topic is just too normal but I knew what Dr. Tai meant by when he said this.For me it is true and I agreed that 'a simple body motion brings much joy to an individual.'
Thank you to Dr. Tai for bringing this joy not only to me but other patients as well.Maybe to the reader of this post could not feel the joy that I meant because you guys and girls never experience it before.What can I say, the moment you realise, some parts of your body had malfunctioning it is the time where there is no more joy.I guess in most part is our knees. When your knees give you problem, it is where your movement had been limited.You just could not stand straight when there is injury on your knee and when you walks,you are limping.It makes you tired and you end up to have waist pain and refuse to move.The most unacceptable part is that, when it comes to climbing up the stairs, you realised that you are useless and you have not much difference with a paralyzed person.I tried but only my brain said I should move but my leg being static and couldnt move and lift up.The only way to climb up the stairs is by sitting down and for every steps of the stairs, i need to use my hand to lift up my leg in a sitting position.
After finals of the last semester in foundation, my mum came down Malacca and bring me to GH for appointment with the specialist there.After the appointment,we went to malacca sentral because my mum wanna do her spectacles.When I reached sentral,I walked into it and it looks like I'm pretending because I walked slow without any support.I chose a spot to sit while waiting for my mum to do her spectacles.The doctor said I couldnt move alot especially when he injected something on my knee for the main reason to determine whether inside of my knee had injured or not.The result is YES ! 10 cc of blood is out and my knee is still swelling .I sat alone and thinking about what the doctor said about my knee and never pay attention to anyone else .My mood was very bad but I tried to control although I know my mum knew it.I know my mum just wanna make me forget what the doctor said by asking me whether I wanted to eat ice cream or other food but I refused to because I know I won't finish the food.
When it came to lunch time, my mum ask me whether I want to eat MCD for lunch and I said alright. I got off from my sitting spot and walk towards MCD from where I'm sitting which is the taxi stand with my mum.I stood up and feel like wanna crying because my leg just could not move.I still tried and acting brave to walk by holding my mum but on that point onwards,I knew I couldnt move my leg.I managed to walk halfway and still a long way towards mcd from my sitting spot.I stopped and I told my mum I couldnt walk anymore because it's painful and tiring.When I walk more, my knee keep swelling and more stiff.On this time, my eyes started to be watery and tears rolled down from my cheeks, for this moment,there are no particular sense of joy anymore but I feel blessed to have my mum beside me.
Later, we decided to have our lunch at the nearby restaurant from where I stopped my walking and I never eat all my food as something wondering my mind.I just feel helpless when I think back what the doctor had said to me.My mum ask me to forget what the doctor's say . The doctor suspected about the injury on my meniscus or ligament and at that time I was so blurred,which part in my knee is meniscus?haha. The doctor still wanna see my condition in 2 weeks time and the only thing I can do is to reduce my swelling by icing.Everyday for every 2 hours I iced my knee for about 15 minutes .The swelling did reduce but it will come again.No matter how hard I tried to ice my knee the swelling will still come.I told myself to be optimistic and continue to ice my knee for about a week to monitor my knee.After 1 week, I knew and very sure my knee injured very seriously. Every night before I slept, I scroll websites about orthopaedics information regarding the main ligament, anterior cruciate ligament because the GH hospital doctor emphasizes on that. I did search about meniscus injury symptoms too.Both search about meniscus and ligament told me that one of the symptoms it looks similar is SWELLING. Oh god ! I browsed the internet about the cure and many did gave me a cure that only ORTHOPAEDICS SURGEON can give me.I admitted that I was so sad when I knew more about my knee condition and I made my choice to go for MRI in private hospital.I told my mum about everything that I research about and my decision to straight go for MRI without having to wait semester break finish to go for the appointmnt with the GH hospital doctor again.
My mum allows me and made her research about doctors.Since my aunt going to KL and she recommended Sime Darby hospital , my mum made an appointment with Dr. Tai Cheh Chin.Few hours before I depart for KL by my aunt's car, my mum showed me in the website which doctor I should meet through the profile picture displayed .hahaha ! Luckily, she did showed me or else I would think that Dr. Tai's nurse is my doctor.hahaha !
My very first picture of my injured knee : )
Till here and we shall meet again for part 2 of this particular topic
' A simple body motion can bring much joy to an individual' - Dr Tai Cheh Chin
Sincerely,
Young girl
p/s: young girl is what Dr. Tai always call me when he emphasizes that I'm still young because I'm 18 : P
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