I'm trying not to get too excited, or else time will slow right down, but,
I'M LEAVING FOR ARIZONA IN TWO DAYS. (to visit my brother)
With Kiely Mae.
Here's some news since I havn't updated about anything lifewise in a long time.
Pretty much, my worst fear reared its ugly bastard head in the last five months.
First off, I'm really active, aside from year round karate and basketball, I stay in shape. I've run and worked out regularly since I was a kid. It's fun for me, a part of my life, and I'm proud of it.
In December during basketball season, I tore my MCL, which is a ligiment running on the inside of your knee. Normally, all that needs to be done is to go in there and snip out the torn musicus, which would still suck, but it would only be a 20 minute surgery. However, when I got my MRI, it showed that the reason why my MCL tore, and also why I've been having problems with my knee for the past year and a half, is because my ACL has been torn right through. The ACL is way more important that the MCL since it is the central ligiment in your knee, and it apparently had been torn for almost two years, which explains why my knee sometimes locked and would give out whenever I landed.
So, to my horror at the time, I was scheduled to have reconstructive surgery in Frebruary. They would take a petella tendon graft, drill some holes in my knee, and use the graft to recreate my ACL, and then snip out some of the torn muniscus. The recouperating period is 6 to eight months with PT three times a week.
The first week was the fucking worst. I CAN'T HANDLE OXYCOTTON, HYDROCODDON, VYKODEN, OR PERCASET. I literally consumed one fruit bowl in four days because I threw up over fifteen bloody times. I also am a violant vomiter (?), because I burst blood vessels in my eye with gave me a completely red left eye for three weeks. I had to take a month off from school, which FUCKED second quareter's report card. I could not stand upright for two weeks after surgery because the blood weight of my leg and the screws in my shin and knee hurt so damn much. And I couldn't walk until three weeks. It was only until a month later that I could walk upright, and I STILL have a SLIGHT limp when I'm tight.
Physical therepy is a bitch and a half. I have the most watery eyed big pupiled faggot tending to me, and I was super irratable all the time because I totally resented not being able to function. I have GAINED five pounds, which is annoying to say the least, for a while I consisted of absoloute ZERO muscle mass, which is a first, and I have not moved faster than 2.5 miles per hour in five months.
You honestly can't appreciate having legs until you've lost one of them. Getting up was such a pain for a while, that I literally had to think if I would need anything
for the rest of the day, so I wouldn't have to get up again. Getting up is still hard, because of atrophee (yikes sp?), I lost three inches up muscle mass off my quad, so its visibly skinnier than my left, which is both a stab to my ego, and an annoyance.
HOWEVER, my knee is doing well two months after sugery, I can't bend it all the way back yet, but my PT said I'll be able to start jogging in two more weeks. The scar is about....6 inches long, and maybe 1/8th of an inch wide right over the knee cap. I can work out and do a stationary bike and a stair master, just not impact, (if I jump I can feel the jolt in my knee), my quad has come back some, but it's still a bit skinnier than the other one. Tight spaces are not my friend. As a comparison, the the strightest I could get my leg was 8 degrees, (pretend 0 is completely strait), and the most I could bend it is 40 degreese, now, two months later, I can straiten in to almost 3 degrees, and bend it up to 138 degrees (average human in 135, my left leg, the good one, is almost 160, I'm flexible). So there has been a lot of progress.
That's pretty much it, it's not like I've been able to do much. However I'm really into the FFXII fandom now, if that's of any interest, I'll be puttering around there for a while, so friend if interested.
cheers.