Coach Sam's Knee Report

I went to see an orthopedic specialist about my knee yesterday. I was expecting a worse -case scenario, but it actually wasn't that bad...

The Doctor did not do an MRI as I had suspected he would. He did take several x-rays. The x-rays showed my knees were in pretty good condition. There was a little bit of wear on the right knee cap, and I'm working on getting some spurs on the side of each knee but he said that was 'normal wear' for someone who has played competitive tennis for nearly 30 years.

He said the discomfort I'm having is most likely due to some tearing along my meniscus. The x-rays won't show that, but he said I wouldn't be in his office if there wasn't something going on.

I requested a shot of cortisone for the pain and now I'm pain free. I'm to spend the next 2 weeks being religious with my stretching and leg lift routine sand to continue wearing my brace and icing it after each athletic episode.

We'll see how it is in two weeks and if it's not better, he'll go in and surgically repair the injured area.

In the mean time it wouldn't hurt me to lose some weight... You know I weighed 130 lbs when I graduated from high school and I weigh nearly 100 lbs more than that now...! Of course, I'm not going to try to lose 100 lbs... But I could definitely stand to lose 40-50 lbs...

What sort of impact will that have on my knees..? well, losing weight is the biggest favor I can do myself, period. It will improve my health all around...

And how am I doing with my war on busy-ness...? Pretty good, so far... But it's only been a little over 24 hours...!

Today Monica and I are going to Houston to check out the old house... We're supposed to close on our sale either this Friday or next Monday. Yea...! Boy, is that a blessing!

All we need to do is clean out the garage before we hand over the keys...

It's supposed to rain here again this afternoon. Wow, this has been the wettest October I ever remember...!

I've got a lite day today... No lessons... This will be another good day to just rest the knee and work on my strengthening and flexibility exercises.

That's about it... More tomorrow.... SC