Last weekend while I was skiing on some black diamond moguls at Loveland (I have to tell you it was a black run to save some of my dignity), my left ski got stuck in a mogul and my right ski tripped over it and kept turning so that it got stuck tip-down about four feet directly below my also stuck, normal position, left ski. This, as you might imagine, twisted my left knee in a manner that was rather prolonged and painful. To make a long story short, I got a nerve-wracking toboggan ride down said black diamond mogul run thanks to the ski patrol, went to the doctor last Tuesday, and learned that I sprained my MCL (that's the ligament on the inside of the knee).
So, for the last 9 days I have not been able to bend my left knee more than about 30 degrees before it's too painful to move anymore. I can't walk normally, run, do tae kwon do, kneel to get things out of low shelves, curl up in bed, or put my pants on right leg first. This is one of a handful of sports injuries I can remember having (mostly hand injuries) and definitely the worst injury I've ever had.
So here's what I'm grateful for: a healthy body. (Also, I'm grateful that a sprained MCL is the worst injury I've ever had.)
I do actually think about how happy I am to have a healthy body when I am not injured or sick, but being injured certainly makes me think more about it. Limping is exhausting, and in the last few days, I have desperately been wanting to curl my leg up under myself. At this stage in my life, I actually am perhaps more invested in sports than I ever have been before (which is not saying that much, but I ski, run semi-regularly, and do tae kwon do) and it is really frustrating not to be able to do any of those things - and to know I probably won't be able to for a few more weeks.
I am also grateful for friends' and coworkers' niceness. Bonni and Jess changed the tires on my car last Sunday so I could drive an automatic transmission. Last week, my boss did a knee exam on me (he's a doctor) and was careful to let me sit rather than stand as much as possible. Lots of coworkers have asked how my knee is feeling. It's nice to feel cared about. I am also so grateful to know that my knee will heal in a few weeks and I will once again be able to move normally.
2 comments:
Hi! I found your blog via Growing Up Geeky's link-up but just noticed that this post would have been right around the beginning of your pregnancy. Did you know you were pregnant before or did they doctors tell you you were pregnant? Is there a story there you didn't share when you posted this because you wouldn't have been far along at all?
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Thanks for commenting! This was posted about 2-3 weeks before conception occurred, and the injury was before that, so nope, no connection.
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