So after thinking I have had an ITBS injury and doing everything and anything to make it better for 9 months I go have a 2nd opinion and he doesn't think its ITBS at all!!! I kind of had that thought enter my mind of the last 3 or so months when the pain wasn't right where I thought the ITB was. He says the pain and the swelling are just not in the right place to be ITBS. His theory and I say theory since there is no absolute proof on the MRI that this is the case, is that the Lateral Collateral Ligament (LCL) is what is being irritated by rubbing against something.
So I have two paths right now...
1. Keep doing what I'm doing and not ride and hope it gets better.
2. Allow someone to put me under the knife to "clean-up" that area of the knee.
I don't like the knife, but the idea of being able to bike w/o pain as early as August has some real appeal... The fact that the condition hasn't changed in 6 months doesn't give me real hope that #1 will allow me to what I want to do. Hmmm....
Went to sugarloaf with the kids today. They had a blast running up and down the trails and climbing the rocks. Nick did much better than he did in the fall, he did everything but one steep uphill and lots of times didn't want me to hold his hand. We saw a lizard and a millipede on the trial which they thought was pretty cool. Nick fell asleep in the Jeep going home which I wasn't sure was possible with all the wind. I guess he's tired.
Always amazes me how many people when they hike just blow by things and miss the wildlife. At sugarloaf there are always way too many people hiking since its one of the nicer places to hike close to the Rockville/Gaithersburg/Germantown area. Here at the top I found that the lizards like to sun themselves on the rocks. Saw two big ones (probably 6-9 inches long) that startled me as I put my food on the rock. This common smaller Blue Tailed Lizard or Five-linked Skink didn't scare as easily and I could get a picture. Probably 20 people went by and nobody saw it... Oh well...
