I had a follow up with my orthopedic doctor today. She said that she would recommend I get surgery on my meniscus now and if I want I can wait for surgery on my ACL. She said in most cases they don't do surgery right away on the ACL and rehab it first and see how it does. I plan on getting the ACL surgery done next spring.
This is a huge burden off my back because now I don't need to completely move home to New Jersey and put all my stuff in storage and move back to Salt Lake (or somewhere else) with no where to live and no job. The recovery time for meniscus is 4-6 weeks where as an ACL is 6-9 months. Luckily summer is pretty dead for sports reporting and I'm going to write a profile piece and another fitness story before I head home and then come back in time for high school fall sports. And I will be good to go for ski season with a knee brace and all. Of course I'm going to have to tone it down a bit but I'm just super happy I don't have to give up a year of coaching.
I saw the mri of my knee and it's pretty ugly. I don't know how I did this to myself. I also never thought I had a high threshold for pain but apparently I do. My knee would bug me but I have never cried about it or let it stop me from doing what I want to do. I really hope they can fix my meniscus and don't just snip away all the frayed pieces.
My doc told me knees are funny because some housewives fall off their 4- wheelers and blow their knee out and can't make it across the room without their knee giving out. I'm the other side of the spectrum, where my knee probably tore gradually and because I'm so strong I had no idea. Either way I am grateful for modern day technology and know that if I've been doing everything with a blown knee, once it is fixed and rehabbed it will make that much more of a difference.
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