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gonzo
03-06-2007, 01:57 PM
I just found out I have a torn ACL. (Insert profanity here)

How's your day going?
R
03-06-2007, 02:02 PM
If it will help you commiserate, our 14-year old is flunking math. :ne_nau:
Scott Card
03-06-2007, 02:07 PM
That stinks. Sorry to hear that. If it helps, I will be to the doctors for my knee in a week or so if my little basketball "incident" doesn't feel better soon. Mine has been screwy for over a week and a half now and it ain't getting better. Course it didn't help to hike Larry canyon. (I had a neoprene knee pad/thing on to stablize it.) Surgery in your future?
gonzo
03-06-2007, 02:19 PM
If it will help you commiserate, our 14-year old is flunking math. :ne_nau:

I flunked math all through high school, and I really regretted it once I got into college. Taking algebra and geometry is much easier in high school when you have a teacher who actually gives a damn about whether or not you pass. (Plus, all of my math teachers at USU were graduate students from China who you could barely understand under their accent).

I know it won't make a darn bit of difference, but tell your 14 yo that I say to just suck it up and get it finished now so they save themselves the trouble in college.


Surgery in your future?

Probably, but I won't know for certain until tomorrow when I speak with an orthopedist.

The biggest bummer is that I was supposed to run a trail race at the end of March. I guess I'm going to have to drop out now.
accadacca
03-06-2007, 02:21 PM
Bloody hell that BLOWS!!! :nono: :bootyshake:
Sombeech
03-06-2007, 02:35 PM
I feel your pain. Welcome the DonJoy carbon fiber knee brace.
asdf
03-06-2007, 02:44 PM
That sucks man, sorry to hear that.
Cirrus2000
03-06-2007, 03:29 PM
Ah, optional. My ACL and PCL are both gone. Good riddance, I say - damn things are nothing but trouble!

Nonetheless, hope things look up soon!
JP
03-06-2007, 04:52 PM
How's your day going?
Much better :haha:
DiscGo
03-06-2007, 05:07 PM
That sucks Kris! I'm so sorry man.
JP
03-06-2007, 05:09 PM
That sucks Kris! I'm so sorry man.
Makes the buckle through the foot seem like child's play, ehhh :lol8:
DiscGo
03-06-2007, 05:15 PM
Makes the buckle through the foot seem like child's play, ehhh :lol8:

Yeah.... but it really hurt. :haha:
JP
03-06-2007, 05:16 PM
Yeah.... but it really hurt. :haha:
:lol8: :lol8: :lol8: :lol8: :lol8:
TreeHugger
03-06-2007, 05:54 PM
Ah, man, that sucks. Sorry to hear that. I had an ACL reconstruction myself....

My day... recovering from a heart procedure where they had to "burn" around my pulmonary veins to stop an AFib arrythmia. Just waiting to get back to my 'real' life.
JP
03-06-2007, 05:56 PM
My day... recovering from a heart procedure where they had to "burn" around my pulmonary veins to stop an AFib arrythmia. Just waiting to get back to my 'real' life.
OK, she wins the worst day :eek2:
Hope you recover quickly :2thumbs:
sparker1
03-06-2007, 06:01 PM
What a shame. Hope it's not the worst, and that you recover quickly. Tough to be laid up with spring coming.
greyhair biker
03-06-2007, 07:31 PM
My day... recovering from a heart procedure where they had to "burn" around my pulmonary veins to stop an AFib arrythmia. Just waiting to get back to my 'real' life.
OK, she wins the worst day :eek2:
Hope you recover quickly :2thumbs:
:eek2: Hope you feel better soon! Me...I just dropped a bolt on my thumb today....the bolt was about 5 pounds, 3/4" by 7 feet long is all...damn that hurt!
jfeiro
03-06-2007, 07:33 PM
Man, that sucks. Had knee surgery in '79 and it's never been the same since. Sad thing is my other ones about shot also...........Hope everything goes well!
RugerShooter
03-06-2007, 08:19 PM
Sorry to hear that I hope to never have to go through that.
gonzo
03-06-2007, 08:22 PM
Ah, man, that sucks. Sorry to hear that. I had an ACL reconstruction myself....

My day... recovering from a heart procedure where they had to "burn" around my pulmonary veins to stop an AFib arrythmia. Just waiting to get back to my 'real' life.

Man...I'm gonna stop whining. No matter how uncomfortable my knee is at least they're not messing with my ticker.

Sorry to hear about that. I hope you get back to "real" life soon.
DirkHammergate
03-06-2007, 09:35 PM
Ah, man, that sucks. Sorry to hear that. I had an ACL reconstruction myself....

My day... recovering from a heart procedure where they had to "burn" around my pulmonary veins to stop an AFib arrythmia. Just waiting to get back to my 'real' life.

Who cares about Kris? My precious TreeHugger. I hope you are getting well by the minute. Sounds a little scary. Hang in there.

Actually Kris I had a good friend who played soccer at Stanford, freshmen year left knee, reshirt freshman year right knee, sophomore year both again. Needless to say, that was it. Good luck with recovery.
marc olivares
03-06-2007, 10:27 PM
Hang in there Kris.

i had mine done a few years back
i got the blue plate special.

ACL, PCL, MCL, LCL and 60% of my miniscus removed.

aside from being able to predict weather, due to barometric pressure changes i'm way better off than i was.

good luck
Cirrus2000
03-07-2007, 01:01 AM
i had mine done a few years back
i got the blue plate special.

ACL, PCL, MCL, LCL and 60% of my miniscus removed.

Wow! Why, if you don't mind my asking?

I had an industrial accident - dropped a 1500 lb slab of granite on it. Ruptured both ACL & PCL, popped the MCL off the bone. Leg stuck out sideways from the knee 'til I went under the knife (about 3 hours!) Stapled the MCL back on, but they just left the cruciates - the knee's been really stable ever since, but a full reconstruction is always available if it worsens.

Kris, as you're hearing, it's incredible what they can do with knees these days. No worries!

jfeiro, if your other knee ever needs work, you can bet the results will be better than what they could do in 1979...

TreeHugger, all the best, and hope you're back at full bore 'real' life soon! Any idea how long that will be?
TreeHugger
03-08-2007, 05:13 PM
Wow, I finally just got back to this post - thanks soooooo much for all the well wishes, everyone! I'm happy to report I'm doing very well and plan to start running again this weekend, hopefully.

Kris - are you gonna go for the surgery? I can say that my ACL construction, which is about 10 or 11 years old now has been great - no problems at all with it, and back to normal activities in handful of months. I had it done in December so I wouldnt use up my summer, though.

Good luck to you!

Tree.
gonzo
03-08-2007, 07:03 PM
Yeah, I have the surgery scheduled for the end of the month. I had toyed with the idea of waiting until the end of summer to do it, but I'm afraid that I'll just do something stupid and wreck the knee even more. (I was planning on eight marathons, or longer, this season; and the idea of dropping out voluntarily just kills me).

Thanks for the support everyone. I'll try to remember everyone's good results when I'm stuck on crutches.
americanhero
03-09-2007, 04:02 PM
Good luck for you, Kris.
I had several knee surgery after an accident and they told me I could never run again. But I recovered completely and was able to run a marathon again. And I did well.
And today they can do so much with knee surgery, the results are really fantastic.
I am still running a few competitions and I never had any problems with my knee since then.

@ TreeHugger:


get well soon and good luck for your running start.