Last week Jordan was able to meet with a really good physical therapist here. They are going to try to get the swelling on Jordan's knee to go down with a compression sleeve. If that doesn't work then they are going to have to have the bursa sac drained. This is an irritated and inflammed bursa sac that used to be under the IT Band (what Jordan had surgery on). Due to the surgery the bursa sac floated ontop of the IT Band and gets irritated now (it is called Bursitis). So that is a simple fix that we are happy with! I just had to take another picture of it last night because it is huge right now! We call it the "tumor". Also, the therapist was able to help with the bending problem Jordan is having. He said that sometimes small muscles and small connective tissue and ligaments can get out of line if you only move a joint one direction (he explained that this can happen with any joint if you only move it one diretion since all joints are supossed to move two directions-extension and flexion). He had Jordan do a lot of leg extensions (straigtening of the leg) and he can already bend it more with less pain! This was the one thing we were really worried about so things are looking a lot better now!
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