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!

Baylor Homecoming Weekend

Jack and Karol flew me in for Homecoming last weekend and we had so much fun! This was my first time back since I had graduated. We went to Pigskin, the bonfire, the parade and the football game (which was dreadful!). My parents came to get me after all the events and the next few days I stayed with them. We met Travis halfway to have lunch and I got to see Libby's new baby Natalie! I had not seen her yet so I was really excited!

Post Assignment!

Soooo....we got Colorado Springs (Fort Carson)!!!!!!!!!!! We are beyond excited because it was our 1st choice! It is called the Mountain Post and Jordan will be in the 4th ID (Infantry Division) but I cannot remember what brigade - I am so awful with all that - I can't even remember which one he is in now. Oh well, maybe someday I will remember! Anyways, YAY!

Cuddly

It has been getting cooler here lately and Major has been so snuggly and cute! He has been crawling under the blankets and sleeping there I guess because it's colder outside. The other day I just had to get this picture of Jordan and him. He stayed like this under the blankets for a few hours watching football with Jordan!

Another Knee Update

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!

Knee Update

So the newest thing with Jordan's knee is this tumor-like thing right where the incision is. We think it is a fluid-filled sac or something like that from swelling. Jordan is going to try to hopefully get it drained today and see if that helps. He also cannot bend it a certain way still (he can't bend it across his other leg like men do when they sit in a chair) so who knows what that means! We are trying to get in touch with his surgeon at West Point to see why...so I'll update when we get some answers.