Web M.D.

Glen has had a couple of appendage issues these past several weeks.

His first problem was his knee. It only bothered him when he knelt down to pray. Then it started bugging him more and he decided to take my advice and go see a doctor so he knew what he was dealing with.

He went to the doctor and found out he has a weird condition so he came home and consulted his favorite online doctor--Web M.D. Here's what he learned (in his own words with the help of Web M.D.'s words as well):

Glen: The doctor told me I have jumper's knee. This is caused by stress from jumping on a tendon that according to Web M.D., "Jumper's knee is one of the more common tendonopathies affecting athletes with mature skeletons."

Those last three words are MY favorite!!! Glen's favorite words are the two in front of that.

Glen: At least I'm an athlete with a mature skeleton. It confirms the fact that I am an athlete.

The doctor put him on prednisone for a week and he hasn't been kneeling on it and he's hoping it is getting better.

On to his second problem--his wrist. Four weeks ago during one of those never-ending snowstorms, he was out snow blowing our driveway and helping out doing our neighbor's driveway, when he fell four times and injured his wrist.

Once again he consulted his favorite online doctor--Web M.D.--and assumed he had a sprained wrist. Web M.D. told him to wear a wrist brace and if it wasn't better in two weeks, then go see a doctor.

FOUR weeks later, he was still complaining like crazy, so he finally broke down and went to the doctor. (Okay, to give him some credit, he did call the doctor a week earlier, but had to wait a while before he could get in.)

Here's what he learned from the real live doctor:

Glen: I have a fracture of where the wrist on the pinky finger side of the arm joins into the arm. Since it was a really formal medical term, I can't remember it and so I can't consult Web M.D. to get further clarification. The doctor was surprised that I was in so much pain after 4 weeks, though. That was until I showed him my little splint. He said that's your problem. The choice was a hard splint or a cast. It's going to take 4-6 weeks to heal.

We should probably give Rebecca credit for diagnosing his other weird ailment several months ago when three live doctors could not pinpoint why in the world Glen was having such intense pain in his ear, intense pain in his head behind his ear and experiencing ringing in the ear and lots of dizziness.

After considering Rebecca's diagnosis, and consulting Web M.D., Glen confirmed in his mind what he is sure he had--TMJ.

Thank you Web M.D. for being there for us when we need you!