The wierd knee thing

I woke up yesterday morning with a sore knee. And it just kept getting worse all day! It seriously, honestly felt like I smacked my knee cap hard enough that I may have fractured it. So I limped around for the day. The first time I really looked at it (yeah, probably the first thing most people do when the have pain) was last night at about 2 AM after we got back from Jenn and Owen's. And low and behold, my knee was swollen and I had the major vein that runs around the inside edge of the knee cap just plum full of blood. I tried rubbing up the vein to try and convince it to drain but no dice. That blood wasn't going anywhere. But we were tired so I figured I would deal with it in the morning. After a night of sleeping very gingerly and Nick trying to stay away from me, I woke up and it was still not draining! What the hell. I was so seriously scared. My first thoughts: "What if it's a blockage?" "What if the vessel has collapsed?" Was I ever scared. Both cases involve surgery. And it wasn't that long ago that I was last put under and cut open. So I got up and started moving around thinking if I have to go to the hospital, I want breakfast first. When I first moved, it hurt so bad! Probably a 5 or 6 on a scale of 1-10. I was praying to those unnamed gods again. Promising that if this went okay, I would take so much better care of myself. I climbed up on the bed to get Nick to have a look at it and there was a weird tingly sensation that went up my leg and by the time I got my pj pant leg up over my knee, it had drained! All at once. It's a miracle!!!

So now I owe those unknown gods something. I guess I'm on a diet and am going to have to pick up the slack on the exercising. Let's all make a deal. Since there are now 3 of us on confirmed diets, lets try to keep supper club as a healthy affair.

My other plans of action.

• I'm going to do my own baking and I'm going to try splenda. This is probably better for me than store bought baking. It'll probably taste better too.
• I'm going to eat more fruit
• I'm going to watch the portion sizes
• And I'm going to restart on 6am yoga (yuck)
• I may also try to convince my Mom (since we practically work together now) that we should start walking at lunch. Let's hope its a really mild winter if we're going to be doing that.
• And I'm so looking forward to our pole dancing class. Woo Hoo
• I may also get some cardio type videos so I have some variety from the yoga. I saw a really cool hula dancing one. That may be fun.
  

Point is, that was scary and I made promises. Let's hope I can hold my end of the bargain up. Wish me luck!