Feeling scared

I was so scared.

Today, I had to go and see a consultant for my knee, as a year ago I was diagnosed with osgoodschlatter.

My knee has been constantly painful, and I have been unable to walk.

I was scared, but I knew that I had to go and see the consultant for him to help me.

My mum explained to him how my knee has been and that I have autism.

He asked to look at my knee, but what he meant was that he needed to touch my knee. I didn’t understand why he needed to touch when he said he was going to look.

You look with your eyes, not with your hands.

My mum explained to the consultant that I thought he was only going to look, my mum asked the consultant if in future he could please say that he needed to look and touch my knee so that I could understand when he wanted to touch it.

I was still scared but I am glad I have let this happen as now he is going to try and help with getting my knee better and stopping the pain for me.

I had an X-Ray, which again was scary but once everything was explained, it wasn’t so bad.

I feel very brave and I now have to wear a leg splint to keep my leg completely straight for 6 weeks and I am learning to walk with crutches.