Dr. Appointment today at WP

Well, Jordan just finished up his appointment at West Point. Overall, it is just another wait-and-see approach...we sure are getting used to this! The Dr. walked in, looked at Jordan's "tumor" and said "well, I've never seen that before!" haha! He was pretty sure it was going to be joint fluid that had just accumlated there for some reason but when he went to drain it, blood came out instead! Jordan said he pulled out about 1 1/2 big syringes of blood! Jordan said it was really painful. The Dr. put lots of compression wraps around his knee and wants him to keep it straight and to stay off of it for 14 days. His theory is that something traumatic happened underneath where the big lump was and that is why blood accumulated there. Staying off of it and keeping it straight for 2 weeks should be enough time to let whatever happened to it heal. After that Jordan is supposed to begin running and training again. If the "tumor" recurs then we will have to go from there...he said he didn't really know what this was all about even though he had this theory since he has never seen anything like this before.
Jordan has also not been able to stretch his IT Band like he has been instructed to-there is way too much pain. The Dr. was also baffled at this, saying that he has never heard of somebody not being able to stretch it while also being able to run and squat and lift weights. He is hoping that it is related to this "tumor" thing. So overall we don't really have any answers. Hopefully, the tumor thing doesn't come back and this will be all there is to it!

Back up to West Point

Well I guess it's not going to be quite as easy to get the "tumor" (that's just what we call it jokingly, it's not really a tumor) on Jordan's knee fixed. The doctors here would not even look at Jordan's knee because he did not have surgery here. It's so dumb! Sooo...he has to fly all the way back up to West Point just to have that surgeon look at him. Jordan had an MRI done a few days ago and his appointment at West Point is November 12th. Jordan bumped into somebody at work whose dad is a doctor-this guy said he was pretty sure it is not bursitis but some kind of cyst that just got filled with fluid. But I guess we will find out next week what the "tumor" really is!