Looking For A Newer Model...

I am looking for another CJ just like the one I already have, but in a newer model... does anyone know where I can find one?? The one I have seems to be falling apart on me!!


Most everyone knows about his ulcer troubles last fall... I posted about it in the blog. Well, that seems to be doing fine, but his knee decides to give him some trouble over Easter weekend. He got up Easter morning and his knee was sore. CJ does tend to get some fluid build-up around the knee every once in a while (due to basketball injury when he was younger) so when this happens he usually wears a knee brace and stays off of it and the next day it feels better. So, Easter was spent at Mom's house and he wore the knee brace and sat around a lot, staying off the knee as much as possible. The next morning when he got up for work, it was still sore, so he wore the knee brace to work. By the time he got home from work in the afternoon, his knee hurt so bad that he could hardly walk! He kept me up most of that night because he was in pain and nothing he was taking was working. Tuesday was my day off, so CJ stayed home from work and I took him to the doctor. His doctor wanted to take some x-rays and said he probably tore his ligament around his knee -- just great. However, when the doctor came back with the x-rays, he showed CJ what the problem was. Apparently, at some point in CJ's life, he must have smacked his knee into something really hard and chipped a piece of bone off the fibula (the bone in your leg below the knee) and it is floating around in the knee area. This little piece of bone fragment is now currently lodged in CJ's joint between his fibula and tibia (bone in the leg above the knee). This is what is causing all the pain and swelling on his knee! The doctor then made an appointment with an orthopedic specialist to determine what course of action should be taken. The appointment with the specialist wasn't for another two weeks, so CJ came home and kept his leg propped up and hoped and prayed for that bone chip to move!! He missed work on Wednesday, but the knee was starting to feel better by Thursday, so he went to work then. When it came time for the appointment with the specialist, his knee was feeling just fine. The specialist took more of his own x-rays and told CJ that if his knee was feeling fine now, he couldn't just say that he needed surgery to remove it. Since this is the first time it actually hurt like this, he wants CJ to wait and see... if it starts happening more frequently or hurting worse, then he needs to consider surgery to have that bone chip removed. I am hoping we can put it off as long as possible... guess we'll see.

Two days after the specialist appointment, CJ started to complain about his right elbow... I told him he has met his "quota" of doctor visits for the year! See why I need a newer model?!