Here comes the PAIN

I offered to buy drinks for ct and Luqman just before the match started during the Tiger Cup finals 2nd Leg.

As I make my way down the stairs, I felt like I was hit by lightning.

The pain in both my knees almost caused me to black out. It took me like an eternity to walk down about 20 steps. I can see people staring at me, probably wondering why this joker here is taking one step at a time with pauses in between, like an old man in his 90's.

The moment I got out of sight from all the staring eyes, I started to descend the stairs backwards. Less pain this way. But by now, I know that I will not be able to join the shoving crowd and get those drinks back to my seat. I made my way back slowly to the seat.

My old enemy is back.

Have not felt this much pain in my knees since the army days. Only back then, it was just the left knee.

This morning, the doctor wanted to give me mc, but I declined. He then gave me some pain killers and muscle relaxant, and a referral letter for some physiotherapy at SGH.

He also told me that I should stop running the way I do and turn to low impact exercises like swimming.

Bah! Tell me something I don't know, doc.

If that's all you can tell me, why do we need doctors? My grandmother can tell me that!

So far in my life, of all the doctors and specialists I've seen, NONE of them had told me what is wrong with my knee. Is it the lateral or medial meniscus (my chief suspect), the collateral ligaments, or the anterior or posterior cruciate ligaments, or is it my ear-drum?!? None of them ever mentioned to me any of those words. None of them ever gave me OPTIONS other than what kind of painkillers or ointment I want. What is this nonsense? I've had physiotherapists who told me more.

I'm gonna take Mau's (who came in 4th in the SWIFT run) advice instead. Lay off for a few months, go for physio-treatment, then build up the strength with some weight training, and work on from there.

I'll be back.