Knee Surgery...

so as many of you know i love soccer. i started playing when i was four years old and played year round until i was 21. i still would be playing if A) they had an adult soccer league here in rock springs and B) if i had a right knee. you see in october of 2006 wyoming was playing tcu in a conference game. i distinctly remember riding the bus into the parking thinking to myself, today i am going to give it 110% the whole game. AND I DID for the first 23 minutes when i shanked the ball over the goal and stepped into some excruciating pain. i shredded the right lateral part of my meniscis and had to have surgery. ever since then my knee hasn't been the same. It gets locked up, it gives out on me, it hurts to run on it, walk up the stairs, swimming. Just lots of pain doing everyday things. so i decided i had had enough and i went to the doctors and got an MRI about 3 weeks ago.

Last Tuesday the doctor called to tell me what was wrong. He said i had more meniscis adnormality on the left side now, some tissue floating around, and maybe some missing cartilage on my bones. so the answer was surgery. I called my trainer from the university of wyoming to make sure he thought it was a good idea and he said yes. so i called to schedule the appointment. i wanted to get it done and over with as soon as possible... so they scheduled me for Friday.

so i had a day and a half to make up some lesson plans and late thursday night my mother in law and i headed down to laramie. we stayed at the hampton inn and in the morning at 9 headed to Gem City Bone and Joint. Now since i have had surgery on this knee before i kinda knew what to expect. #1 the IV in my hand. YES it was extrememly painful. NO i did not cry :)

I had to answer a billion questions about 5 different times before they took me into the cold metal dreary room and told me to take a deep breath and the next time i would open my eyes i would be in the recovery room... and that's what happened i ended up here:

PROCEDURE: they were able to reattach my left lateral meniscis that was coming up, clean up the tissue floaties, and they had to do a microfracture which is to make a hole in my bone and let it bleed so that the blood cells will create scar tissue and protect my bones since there is no cartilage there.

i stayed in there for an hour so they could monitor me. they gave me some delicious snacks, taught me how to use crutches and the CyroCuff (?), then i was back on the road headed to rock springs. i slept the whole drive and plan on sleeping the whole weekend. so if you need me, i'll be here, most likely sleeping...