Anybody know about knees?

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:19 pm

So I was shooting hoops with my boy yesterday and I felt a little twinge in my knee. It wasn't enough to make me stop, and it didn't really hurt, at least not any more than the other knee or my lower back.

Today it's swollen up to about grapefruit size, I can barely bend it and am having a hard time walking, especially down the driveway to take that trash out.

Is this something serious? Do I now need major reconstructive surgery or is it enough just to try and stay off it and get the OL to do all my chores for a few days?

DMike316 · Post by **DMike316** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:25 pm

Sounds like a torn Quadrevion.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:26 pm

Talk to Cicero. He spends a lot of time on his knees.

Uncle Fester · Post by **Uncle Fester** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:26 pm

You do not have knee pain because you do not have knees. Nobody has "knees" or "elbows" for that matter.

Sin,

Diogenes, being provocative.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:27 pm

check edmunds.com

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:31 pm

free advice for preventing future knee pain--
your hoops playing days are over !!

sin-
old age

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:31 pm

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:check edmunds.com

Mine's a '55. I don't think they go back that far.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:33 pm

Wolfman wrote:free advice for preventing future knee pain--
your hoops playing days are over !!

sin-
old age

Dude. I'm old, but not as old as you. I've got a 13 y.o. who wants to go one on one with his dad. I'm not quittin' now. Not at least until he can beat me.

mothster · Post by **mothster** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:33 pm

try the easy lime shrimp----coudn't hurt

UCant#2 · Post by **UCant#2** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:37 pm

I'd recommend milking this for some serious sympathy BJs ("honey.. my knee hurts")... once this well runs dry, take a ball peen hammer to it and repeat as necessary. Hit wife in head with said hammer if she denies you from the get-go.

Jerkovich · Post by **Jerkovich** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:04 pm

Mikey wrote:
Wolfman wrote:free advice for preventing future knee pain--
your hoops playing days are over !!

sin-
old age
Dude. I'm old, but not as old as you. I've got a 13 y.o. who wants to go one on one with his dad. I'm not quittin' now. Not at least until he can beat me.

He's a shoe in now, lamo

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:13 pm

Wolfman wrote:free advice for preventing future knee pain--
your hoops playing days are over !!

sin-
old age

I'm 31 and playing hoops killed me. My knees click with each step up.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:19 pm

At your age Mikey, it probably shouldn't take more than about 3-4 years for it to heal up, assuming you take it easy on it and don't aggrivate it any further. Unless it's aggrivated while golfing, which is acceptable.

And you probably think I'm kidding...hehehehe.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:50 pm

I'll play golf in a fuckin' wheelchair if I have to. I could still probably shoot 90 or better.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:06 pm

Bizzarofelice wrote:
Wolfman wrote:free advice for preventing future knee pain--
your hoops playing days are over !!

sin-
old age
My knees click with each step up.

Those aren't your knees. Those are the tap dancing shoes you got on. :)

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:20 pm

Mikey wrote:I'll play golf in a fuckin' wheelchair if I have to. I could still probably shoot 90 or better.

Oh....about 3 years ago I guess, my good friend and golfing buddy's dad got rushed in for triple-bypass surgery. He was in his mid-70s at the time. Big tough old bastard, but he abviously wasn't in very good shape after such an ordeal. He was pretty much bedridden for a while. But less than two weeks after he had the open-heart surgery, apparently his wife of about a million years was starting to drive him nuts. One morning, she went to the store, and he saw his chance -- called up one of his ancient old buddies, who quickly came over to his house, helped him out of bed, drove him to the course, propped him up in the cart, and away they went.

I guess dude just about died on the course that day, which is understandable in his predicament.

But he shot 80 that winter day. Most RACKable.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:23 pm

Definitely RACKable.

If you're gonna die, that would be about the best place to do it.

Either that or the way Nelson Rockefeller went out.

Derron · Post by **Derron** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:25 pm

Impact sports such as basketball, running etc are the worst thing for knees.

You likely have agravated the bursa which provides cushioning, (cartilage), and if you play hoops a lot, probably got some floaters in there.

Probably should go see the orthopedic butcher...eerrrrrr Doctor. He may need to drain some of that fluid off it, and maybe jack you up on some cortisone. Maybe even need some artho scopic work, but its day surgery now, and it hurts a lot less than a fucked up knee does.

I have had 3 knee surgeries and one knee replacement. I don't run, I can golf just fine, but the knee hacker says to stay away from any type of impingment shock activites that cause's repetitive striking shock to a joint.

He will also reccomend that your wife give you head 3 times a day and swallow it all, to help with the pain.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:42 pm

Mikey wrote:Definitely RACKable.

Either that or the way Nelson Rockefeller went out.

You mean with the paramedics laughing at your hideously over-inflated penile implant that your secretary couldn't figure out how to deflate after you died?

Luther · Post by **Luther** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:43 pm

I know knees.

I've had 9 surgeries on the right one...the last cut hopefully will be the last as it was a knee replacement.

When I was younger, I could manage a weak dunk. If I was to try right now, I'd be happy just to graze the bottom of the net. I probably could do a Dr. J flying windmill, slama-jama, 720, with a Sasha Cohen beaver splay if I could have that bitch from the Allenby Bridge crossover into Israel again, and scream "GO GO GO".

I would walk away like I owned the place. As soon as I got in my Oldsmobubble, I'd probably drive a mile, pull over and vomit on my Sears athletic apparel.

Rip City

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:46 pm

Cuda wrote:
Mikey wrote:Definitely RACKable.

Either that or the way Nelson Rockefeller went out.

You mean with the paramedics laughing at your hideously over-inflated penile implant that your secretary couldn't figure out how to deflate after you died?

You seem to have a lot of details that aren't publically known.
Were you there?

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:49 pm

Luther wrote:I know knees.

I've had 9 surgeries on the right one...the last cut hopefully will be the last as it was a knee replacement.

When I was younger, I could manage a weak dunk. If I was to try right now, I'd be happy just to graze the bottom of the net. I probably could do a Dr. J flying windmill, slama-jama, 720, with a Sasha Cohen beaver splay if I could have that bitch from the Allenby Bridge crossover into Israel again, and scream "GO GO GO".

I would walk away like I owned the place. As soon as I got in my Oldsmobubble, I'd probably drive a mile, pull over and vomit on my Sears athletic apparel.

Rip City

I could never dunk (except on one of those 8 ft baskets) but I could at least get the total length of my fingers over the rim. Now I just stand under the basket looking up and thinking geez that looks like a lot more than 10 feet.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:51 pm

Cuda wrote:
Mikey wrote:Definitely RACKable.

Either that or the way Nelson Rockefeller went out.

You mean with the paramedics laughing at your hideously over-inflated penile implant that your secretary couldn't figure out how to deflate after you died?

How many rich guy's penises are familiar with, anyway?

4 king guy · Post by **4 king guy** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:06 pm

I just know you need your knees!! But to work down that grapefuit size swelling, you may need to knead the area. After discussing this with a Doctor friend of mine, he agrees that you need to knead your knees!!

I hope this is the information that you needed!!

Now, if you need to heal your knees, that's another story......

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:14 pm

What if I need to have my knee grow?

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:21 pm

Mikey wrote: I could never dunk

38 years old. 6'1". 6 knee injuries. Several lower back injuries. White as white gets.

And I can still grab the rim on a good day.

I believe this is where I'm supposed to declare "BODE," if'n I'm not mistaken.

Of course, if I try to do that more than a couple of times in a day, my body gives me its opinion of my recreational choices.

And WTF? Maybe it's age, or maybe it's too much working for a living, but when I was a teen, I could palm a ball, no prob. Hell, I could spread my big mitts and catch it out of the air with one hand. I could do the MJ "hold the ball out in front of you with one hand and slowly wave it around." Now those same mitts that used to damn-near encompass the ball can barely grab it off the ground, much less be able to actually move it if I should get lucky and get enough grip to palm it.

Not sure how that works.

Y2K · Post by **Y2K** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:23 pm

Mikey,

Hot & Cold

BTW- Call H-Man for advice, Both he "much like Luther" have made a couple doctors rich.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:24 pm

Yeah. You've got definite BODE.

I'm an inch shorter, 13 years older and probably 40 lb heavier. I'm willing to concede BODE on this one. But ONLY this one.

Y2K · Post by **Y2K** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:29 pm

Dinsdale wrote:
Mikey wrote: I could never dunk

38 years old. 6'1". 6 knee injuries. Several lower back injuries. White as white gets.

And I can still grab the rim on a good day.

I believe this is where I'm supposed to declare "BODE," if'n I'm not mistaken.

Of course, if I try to do that more than a couple of times in a day, my body gives me its opinion of my recreational choices.

And WTF? Maybe it's age, or maybe it's too much working for a living, but when I was a teen, I could palm a ball, no prob. Hell, I could spread my big mitts and catch it out of the air with one hand. I could do the MJ "hold the ball out in front of you with one hand and slowly wave it around." Now those same mitts that used to damn-near encompass the ball can barely grab it off the ground, much less be able to actually move it if I should get lucky and get enough grip to palm it.

Not sure how that works.

I'm thinking that Dinsdale's "on the juice."

Hey Din's,
Hook a brother up, My season pass at Balco expired.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:35 pm

Y2K wrote:Mikey,

Hot & Cold

BTW- Call H-Man for advice, Both he "much like Luther" have made a couple doctors rich.

Yeah, I heard he's had some knee problems...

WebMD says RICE

Rest
Ice
Compression
Elevation

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:32 pm

My doc said to wrap it and ice it and if it's not better by Monday I should see an orthopedist. Sounds reasonable to me. Now, anybody have any extra vicodins?

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:35 pm

Go to Compton, my friend. :)