Gimp Knee Lexi

It was Monday morning and it was looking like it was going to be a good day
Good week for that matter.
Nothing big and stress creating to do, just a normal good week ahead.
I had gotten everyone to work and/or school.
I was busy getting the dishes/kitchen clean
and then...

and then...

Mom?
Mom, can you come get me?

Mom, can you come and get me...I can't straighten my leg, I can't walk...
I can't move.
I'm sitting down outside my class
and I can't walk...please come get me! (whimper, whimper)

I of course jump into the car and drive to TCC and pick Lexi up.
Poor girl can't walk...she comes out of the door hopping and stumbling
and somehow she makes it to the car which I park as close as I can get to the door.

We drive directly to Ergent Care and they send us to the Orthopedist who sends us to get an MRI.
And so my Monday and my week which had been so promising turns into a day/week spent at
doctors and hospitals.

This is the angle which her knee was 'stuck' in.

They put a knee brace on her
and gave her crutches and that is how she got around

Back last winter when we had so much snow

we would sled down our driveway.

Well Lexi had a wipeout and of course she hurt her knee.

But she was able to 'pop' it back in and though it was sore she was able to walk.

From time to time it would 'pop' out and she would 'pop' it back in and be okay.

Well Monday she was sitting in class with her knee up and when she got up to go her knee

wouldn't straighten out and she couldn't 'pop' it back in place and hence why she couldn't walk.

Her diagnosis was a torn meniscus.

The doctor said she would have never been able to 'pop' it back into place this time.

Thanks heavens for doctors and there skilled hands

So now Lexi after a period of healing will be as good as new!

Lexi right before surgery...feeling a little sassy...

Lexi right after surgery...feeling not so sassy...

All in all everything went well

and in a few weeks Lexi should be doing fine.

It made for a mixed-up week and we hope this week won't bring any knees that 'lock up'...


Update:
Lexi's stitches are out and she is able to straighten her leg out all the way!
She is off crutches and walks with only a slight limp.
She notices though that her right calf muscle is totally wasted away
and her left calf muscle has doubled!