The Accident

March 29th, 2015 is a day I won't soon forget. Actually, I'll never forget it. It's the day I blew out my dominant, right knee.

I decided to go with a friend to one of those indoor trampoline parks, Skyzone. I was about 5 minutes in and decided to go off one of the side walls. When I landed, I felt my knee "pop" out and then back into place, and I instantly went down clutching my leg. They cleared off all the trampolines and as all the children looked on, I dragged myself across the blue mats so they could go back to enjoying themselves.

Since I seem to be always accident prone, I called up my family and told them to come with the crutches. From there it was off to the hospital for xrays. They said the bones looked good and were all in place, so it was a soft tissue injury. The Zimmered my leg and sent me home. Told me to ice and elevate for a week and then see my general doctor.

From there it was on to an MRI and a visit to the orthopedic surgeon. It was confirmed that I had fully torn the ACL and ruptured the MCL. The MCL luckily healed on its own, but the ACL would have no such luck.

I did 6 months of physiotherapy where I worked on regaining my full range of motion and strengthening my leg. Unfortunately due to scar tissue, I couldn't achieve full extension, and this was one of the reasons I opted to do the reconstructive surgery.

My surgery was on October 27th, 2015. It took 1 hour and 40 minutes, using my patellar tendon, and everything went well! So now there is a long road ahead, filled with pain and phyiotherapy. This is my journey.