{"id":3395,"date":"2009-02-13T21:05:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T04:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=3395"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:35:12","slug":"why-did-i-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/02\/13\/why-did-i-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did I Wait?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was pregnant in 2007, I remember a day when I came back from a walk (or maybe a trip to the grocery store) when my left knee ached. (There were several trips to Safeway when my foot stepped in something on the floor and I slipped. The management has improved maintenance since then.) I chalked up the pain to pregnancy hormones and hoped it would go away.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t. Then I assumed it was just my &#8220;advanced&#8221; age &#8212; you know, the fact that a mid-40s body has aches and pains that a mid-20s body doesn&#8217;t. I also figured that a visit to the doctor would result in my concern being dismissed with a recommendation to just put some ice on it.<\/p>\n<p>When my sister E visited in December, she urged me to look into it. I did, and I had an MRI this morning. The result: I have a complex <a href=\"http:\/\/orthopedics.about.com\/cs\/meniscusinjuries1\/a\/meniscus.htm\">tear of the medial meniscus<\/a>. I was referred to a surgeon and have an appointment for February 23 in the afternoon to review the problem and the options. <\/p>\n<p>So, it is validating to know that my pain is real. I feel chagrined that I didn&#8217;t pursue this sooner. I could have been pain free at least a year ago! I also feel a little daunted at the thought of being laid up with a toddler and having to navigate our 27 steps in the townhome. Maybe the surgery will be less invasive and intense than my imagination manufactures. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was pregnant in 2007, I remember a day when I came back from a walk (or maybe a trip to the grocery store) when my left knee ached. (There were several trips to Safeway when my foot stepped in something on the floor and I slipped. The management has improved maintenance since then.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood","category-nature","category-science","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3395"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4723,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions\/4723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}