Patellar Tendonitis

So I woke up Sunday morning with a hefty pain in my left knee. I took a bad fall on the ice on this knee in February but it has been fairly fine since. Basically I can’t straighten my knee or walk on it, but when it’s bent i feels mostly fine.

The pain didn’t get really bad until Sunday evening, and then I could no longer walk. I also have a cold that I got from a co-worker on top of this but I think that is finally fading.

Yesterday I had to take off of work. I can’t even walk to the bathroom without resulting in tears at this point, so getting into work and going up the stairs is out of the question. I got a doctors appointment in the afternoon and he thinks I have a bruised patellar tendonitis, but says we can do x-rays to be sure. He says to keep ice on it and take advil, which I have been doing but this morning it feels just as bad as it did yesterday. I can’t imagine just a BRUISE feeling this bad. It’s quite literally the worst pain I’ve ever felt.

I have to call the advanced radiology today and see if I can get an appointment for the x-rays, but I’m starting to consider just going to the hospital. It’s a painful chore just to make it to the bathroom, and it’s not worth it to try and get something to eat. I hate relying on other people for anything and to have to just sit on my butt all day and not clean or do something is eating me up and putting me in a very emotional state.

I just want it fixed so I can move on. I don’t like missing work, I don’t like not being able to clean my house, I have big plans this weekend that I don’t want to miss, and I certainly don’t want to be like this over the whole freaking holiday.