Oh no! Not my knee...

Last night as I was leaving my sisters house, and right after she closed the door, my foot caught the edge between the lawn and the driveway and I went down. Hard. Right on my bad knee. The one where I am working so hard rebuild cartilage and the one my orthopedic tells me I need replaced, first, right before the other one. The one that had finally stopped hurting once I started the HBP and glucogel.

Besides the pain, I was crying because with me, usually these things areserious, something is torn, need an x-ray, etc. And that stupid fall was WRECKING MY SUCCESS STORY! I hobbled to the car because it was late and I knew Lars would help me decide what to do. My knee was killing me all the way back to the hotel, I hobbled to the elevator and to my room, and could see and feel that my knee was HUGE and mis-shapen. When I got undressed to look at it, I had a nice layer of skin missing and and bulges in weird places, and stabs of pain as it was icing.

I cried, iced my knee, took my tangy tangerine with osteo, 4 glucogel (my final dose), and 4 EFA's (double my 3x a day dose) because I know EFA's are good for inflammation, lasted another 10 minutes before I took 800mg of ibuprofen (that Lars just bought because we haven't needed it for so long). Last but not least, after icing my knee for about 30 minutes, I rubbed some essential oils on my feet, on my neck and all over my knee and fell fast asleep, knowing it was going to be a long night.

And then I woke up, at 6 am completely refreshed and...my knee didn't hurt.

I am not kidding.

Lars and I stared at it. Most of the swelling was gone, layer of skin still gone, and I didn't even have a limp. Wha what???

Now I'm guessing if there was some kind of structural damage, my body would be telling me. But my body was not screaming at me. At all.

We iced again this morning, just in case, did the oils again, and I'll keep following my regular protocol with doubling the EFA's, but seriously? The old me had a body so weak that I tore my meniscus while turning my leg...just barely. Pop! Or had to stay in bed because my neck and shoulders would stop working...from stress! And I FOR SURE would have had to sign my life away for the next couple weeks with yet another knee injury. But not the new me!

I'm so glad I brought the things I knew I might need with me to Seattle. I can't imagine the cost of time and sleep and money it would have been to have to go to the ER or something last night. Because we don't go to the doctor anymore I am nowhere near my deductible and it ALL would have been out of pocket.

I am completely fine today. I chose the stairs instead of the elevator TWICE today already when I went down for breakfast. The old me would have never chosen that. NEVER. I feel like the molecular structure of my body and my brain have completely changed with Youngevity. It's crazy. Now I'M the crazy Kool-Aid lady pushing potion. Crazy, crazy...crazy AMAZING! ‪#‎ProofforLars‬