Day Six of My Debilitating Right Knee Injury

Possibly no later than 7:30 p.m. yesterday, I betook myself to bed to seek relief from my respiratory infection fever and my throbbing damaged right knee. I did leave my bedroom door ajar by a foot or so in case my inebriated brother felt any desperation to have me operate our Android TV Box so we could watch some of our shows. He had come home earlier and was sitting watching shows Bev had selected on 'regular' T.V.

I zoned out and upon reviving was a little surprised to find that it was 9 p.m., so I rose to use the bathroom. I could see downstairs that my brother had passed out.

Well, I was not about to sit up enduring hours of T.V. with him just because he revived with a 'second wind' compelling him to desire sitting up so he could keep swilling beer.

So I went properly to bed.

I was to have some wakeful periods overnight, but I was always very comfortable in bed. I think that I rose three times to use the toilet. When I finally did rise for the morning, it was just after 8 a.m. This amount of time abed ─ virtually a half day ─ is practically unheard of for me. Clearly, I needed it.

My knee initially felt better and the overall swelling was not monstrously greater than the size of my left knee; but soon enough the swelling increased once I was no longer horizontal.

I am still feeling feverish, but I keep nebulizing H2O2, as well as using a dropper to help me to 'snort' a weakened solution of H2O2 and water. Today I added some Himalayan pink salt to the solution, but I have yet to try the briny blend ─ I'm a little afraid to.

This is a bath day, so I have yet to deal with that arduous chore. But I had thought that it was ideal timing in that maybe I could get to bed early enough so that I could somehow walk the four blocks to a nearby medical clinic and arrive for its opening.

Alas, the clinic does not open on weekends. I need confirmation of the original doctor who saw me less than 12 hours after my accident early last Saturday, and whose assessment of three regular X-rays as well as a skyline X-ray was that nothing was broken, nor (I believe) was there a meniscus tear.

He said if I did not have marked improvement in five days, then I could return for further examination.

Well, I would have. But by Tuesday I began evidencing a slight sore throat, and that evening I had developed a fever ─ after 14 hours in the emergency section of a hospital, I had evidently become infected with something one or more people were coughing forth.

I am still incapable of withstanding hours and hours of a 'wait time' at the hospital to have myself seen by a doctor. This was why I had thought that a doctor at the nearby medical clinic might be versed enough in knee damage to counsel if my inability to elevate my lower leg ─ as well as the ongoing swelling and throbbing ─ is proof enough that something crucial has been torn and may require swift surgery.

I am thinking here in terms of something like a patellar tendon tear. Is this something the emergency ward doctor might have been unable to detect in X-rays?

Anyway, this morning I watched some videos with my younger brother who already had the T.V. playing when I rose. Using our Android TV Box, I first tuned in a video published yesterday at Rumble's Stew Peters Network channel: Millstone Report w Paul Harrell: Arkansas Predator Caught Planning Child Murder, Rogan Talks Epstein.

I see that the video is over 1¾ hours (1:50:19), but I think I mistakenly believed it to be finished after just over 59 minutes and so I tuned in something else. Maybe tomorrow morning we will revisit it.

The second show I tuned in was almost 50 minutes, and had been uploaded October 5, 2016, to YouTube's Real Stories channel: Babies At 50 (Parenting Documentary) | Real Stories.

A one-off documentary that examines ethical issues and questions in the light of revelations by scientists that, thanks to fertility treatment, a women can now have children right up into her eighties.

We finished with an 11-minute (11:42) video uploaded January 31, 2021, to YouTube's The Why Files channel: Why We Like To Be Scared | Do You Enjoy Fear? This video will scare you. 😱

My personal opinion is that the video was overhyped.

I am going to take a break from this post at 6:55 p.m. to have that bath ─ it is so arduous getting into a bath tub with a 𝒻𝓊𝒸𝓀ℯ𝒹 knee.

Incidentally, my wife never came home last night ─ she has not been home since she left for work midafternoon Wednesday.

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It's so damned hard to bath! I had my last one on Monday, and this one was only slightly easier.

My brother does not yet seem to be home. Normally I would be into my Sabbath fast, but look how I was rewarded for it last Saturday ─ crippled just before 4:30 a.m. And I was to eat nothing until at least 3 a.m. on Sunday.

I am going to brush my teeth and ─ if my brother is not home by 9 p.m., or if he appears to be stinking drunk ─ then I will go to bed.

And I just now heard him come into the house at 8:09 p.m.

It is 8:17 p.m.