Damn knee - or how to get Xue to listen to you if you are an MD

[Xue Sheng]

Funny, I'm just the opposite. When I look for a new doctor I give them a rather snarky interview, including "You work for me. You give advice and I make the decisions." If they flinch at that, I'm out the door.

Don't get me wrong I am of the opinion that they work for me since I am paying them and I make the final decisions, I am not going there to be ordered around, lied to or placated. I tend to like the guys that I go to for medical stuff because they are rather blunt and very honest (one is even an MAist).


It is just every now and then I need to be told exactly what I am doing wrong... basically I need to be told I am being an idiot and if I don't want to listen then why show up and waste my money and both mine and the doctors time without that every now and then I have a tendency not to listen and go about my usual routine thinking I can work through this. I truly like that attitude from a doctor. I like blunt honesty not sugar coated crap. That is what I am talking about

 

[teekin]

One of the things I learned years ago is not to talk medical to patients. Use plain and simple English and examples they can relate to. I don't tell a smoker with bronchitis that if they persist they'll develop COPD. I tell them "If you won't stop smoking, you need to get used to feeling like this, because this is what your breathing will be like on a good day. And lugging your oxygen around all the time makes it really difficult to carry your grandchild." "If you won't wear your seatbelt, at least sign your organ donor card." "You don't think you need a helmet? See, we are pretty good at lots of things. If you break your arm, we can probably fix it. If you break your leg, we can probably fix it. If you break your brain... you're getting coloring books for christmas for the rest of your life. Hopefully you will be able to color, and not just sit there drooling on them."

Xue, your knee may well never heal fully. When it's healed as well as it's going to, you need to protect it. You ought to wear a knee brace. Not one of the cheapy ones, but a good one. And you may find it necessary to modify techniques and kata slightly to prevent reinjury.

I'm in the same boat. I'll never do as well as others in forms. Because my left eye is just a piece of plastic, I modify left foot forward stances and techniques slightly so as to be able to see my opponent. I do this knowing that my scores on belt tests will always suffer for it. But I don't train for scores. I train for life.

I like you! Will you be my Friend?:angel:
lori

 

[Xue Sheng]

Based on some thinking and Dirty Dog's post I have decided I need a second opinion. My MD, for 20 years, has been spot on in every single diagnosis, and he may be here as well, but I am thinking that it is possible that he is not. Nothing against him or his knowledge and skill it is just he like everyone else is human and can make a mistake from time to time.

Also after much self pity and feeling sorry for myself due to my complete lack of ability to train like I want due t my damn knee and the associated weight gain I am experiencing I have finally figured out some sort of training that will not hurt me.

I am going to be training zhan zhuang until I feel my knee is strong enough to handle Ba Duan Jin. If and when I get to the point that ba duan jin is not a problem I will then get back to Santi Shi and I will throw in Chen style Chan Si Gong

And if after the second opinion and the above training all goes well then I will decide how to proceed in my training

As for other training all I appear to be able to do, that does not effect this knee are full sit-ups. I can't do bent knee so full sit-ups it is. And I will likely get back into some dumbbell work. I said I would do that before but somewhere between the first knee draining, reinjury and the second knee draining I let it get to me, got a bit depressed and stopped

 

[Blade96]

probably a little off topic but i just wanted to say I like the dr strangelove reference in your topic title :angel:

 

[Xue Sheng]

probably a little off topic but i just wanted to say I like the dr strangelove reference in your topic title :angel:

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

:uhoh: Dr Strangelove reference…. :idea: aaaa YEAH… that was EXACTLY what I was doing


OK now for the truth; I assure you it was purely accidental and I had not thought about DR Strangelove at all…. But DAMN I wished I had

 

[Xue Sheng]

Well the knee is inflated again, 3 hours of work removing 16 inches of snow and a 4' x 3' x 16' snowplow made wall is apparently not good for the knee, but I had no choice.

However I am going to a specialist next week and see what he has to say.

I have been giving my training future serious thought and I may have to go to things less demanding on the knees by the time this is done or I could be able to resume my chosen styles Taijiquan and Xingyiquan, I am not sure at this point.

I am beginning to wonder if someone isn't trying to tell me something however. I have on a direct line between my office and my house a JKD school and a gym that trains boxers. And I was looking for something more on Qigong and a Taoist popped up that is having a seminar near me soon. And he teaches regular classes not that far from me (4 hours away).

I would however miss ICMA, but this is not certain yet but then I will know more next week.

 

[Blade96]

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

:uhoh: Dr Strangelove reference…. :idea: aaaa YEAH… that was EXACTLY what I was doing


OK now for the truth; I assure you it was purely accidental and I had not thought about DR Strangelove at all…. But DAMN I wished I had

Hahah, good call =]

btw my ex bf years ago dressed up as dr strangelove for halloween and i know of the movie through my studying the cold war so saw your title and was like, Hah! cool. :angel:

You should get a snow blower or something.

Hope the knee gets better btw.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Hahah, good call =]

You should get a snow blower or something.

That was with a snowblower

Damn, I'm old


As for the knee, I am going for an MRI and the MD thinks it may be as simple as a Cortisone shot (ouch)....BUT it could also be the Meniscus