The trip down to Cape Town was a long one. Luckily it was overcast so it wasn't a hot one in the car.
The specialist there saw me, and i did the usual climb up on the bed and he pushed and pulled on my knee and did the leg rotating thing i've become used to by know.
His findings were that my knee seems to be stable enough to facilitate walking!
He said that the pain in the lateral part of my knee was, in his professional opinion, and without having looked at any xrays or seen inside my knee, coming from the upper part of my leg.
It was pain transferal from my femur or hip.
He looked at the xrays i had brought with me, and said that he could not tell from them where exactly the pain was coming from, and that i needed better xrays or an MRI to make sure.
And that was my entire 20min meeting with him.
A 2 day round trip, and a pretty expensive fuel bill later and i was still none the wiser...but at least i had been pointed in a direction to look now.
I took a chance the following morning and called the hospital in George to see if i could possibly get a late appointment for the same day, and i could stop in there on the way past.
As luck would have it, they could fit me in.
5 hours later and i was once again sitting in the queue system waiting to see the specialist at the public hospital.
3 more hours later and it was my turn.
They were interested to hear of my visit to the specialist in Cape Town, and agreed that the knee might not be where the initial problem lay. Unfortunately it was too late in the day for xrays, so they scheduled me to return the following wednesday for xrays and a better look.
So, off i went again, with a date to return in a weeks time.
The plot thickens...
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