So, I tore my ACL in November playing rugby. I thought that the hard part was going to be getting around before the surgery. I could not have been more wrong. My knee did not constantly hurt before I had surgery. Now, every morning it is incredibly stiff and hurts and takes me a while to get going.
My doctor told me the first week or so after surgery was more or less going to suck... and it did. But, after that, the way I felt was much better. Then I started physical therapy. I swear in that first week and a half of pt I got way better and was making incredible process and slowly it has started to slow down into what seems to be a stand still. I am not able to straighten my knee yet and I have to do painful exercises to try and gain back the last few degrees of extention that I am lacking and it is so incredibly frustrating. I do not think I have ever been as frustrated in my life as I have been these past 2 1/2 weeks. It seems like nothing I do works and my knee is not getting much better. It is so hard not to be able to run or jump or skip or play sports or swim or do any of the things I love to do. Frustration is slowly starting to be a part of my every day life and I am not a huge fan of it.
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Dang, that had to suck tearing ur ACL. The most that has happened to me is my knee popping out of place, and still does that every once in awhile when im wrestling.
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