Getting closer to one diagnosis!

This morning I had a chest Xray - simply to rule out any reason for the fevers. 
Late this afternoon the Orthopaedic consultant phoned me to say he thinks the knee problem is a condition called PVNS and I will most likely need surgery.
https://orthoinfo.aaos.org/en/diseases--conditions/pigmented-villonodular-synovitis/
He said the raised temperatures will have nothing to do with it so that must be something else.
I must have had the knee problem for years.
I remember it swelling up at work once when I was 20 and then I remember the Dr draining a swelling on my knee once in my 30’s and again in my 40’s.
I thought it was just Bursitis but maybe it was this all along.

‘Getting old ain’t for sissies!’

Anyway Dr Hopton wants to discuss it with the radiographer and will get back to me in a few days.

I saw this on FB today. A wise woman’s words. 

“Loving the earth, seeing what has been done to it, I grow sharp, I grow cold.
Where will the trilliums go, and the coltsfoot?
Where will the pond lilies go to continue living their simple, penniless lives, lifting their faces of gold?
Impossible to believe we need so much as the world wants us to buy.
I have more clothes, lamps, dishes, paper clips than I could possibly use before I die.
Oh, I would like to live in an empty house, with vines for walls, and a carpet of grass.
No planks, no plastic, no fiberglass.
And I suppose sometime I will.
Old and cold I will lie apart from all this buying and selling, with only the beautiful earth in my heart.”

~Mary Oliver

Goodnight and thanks for your concern and comments, stars and hearts.
What a lovely bunch Blippers are. :-) X