Knee Woes

Well - it finally happened... I got the results back from my MRI on my right knee (i.e., previously known as my "good knee") last week and chatted with my physical therapist. It seems that I have a nasty little tear in my ACL (OK - it's completely torn off) along with some lovely medial meniscal damage.

Looks like I have another ACL reconstruction in my future... Ever since I found out about it last week, I've been having lots of flash backs to high school. Hobbling around on crutches... Leg muscles becoming severely atrophied... The good news is that they have a better procedure these days, stealing from your hamstring rather than from your patelar tendon (which came with a longer recovery and not-so-pleasant long-term pain when I kneel on anything hard).

Now, if I could only get things to settle down a little at work, I might actually have time to see an ortho doc about it! Ugh...