Today is the three week anniversary of my monumental ski flub-up. The moral of the story being don’t follow your 10 year old son into the trees and over ski jumps. Even through it’s really cool to come down the mountain in a toboggan, it’s not really worth it.
I do have the consolation of knowing that I’m special, because when I hurt myself, I don’t do any run-of-the-mill ordinary injury; I do the unusual. No sir, no straight-forward ACL knee injury for me; I went for the gusto and ripped by PCL (along with my MCL). My injury is uncommon enough that the first doctor I went to doesn’t even treat them. So I had to make an appointment with a more experienced specialist.
I do have to admit that after 2 weeks of having an immobilized leg without having any end in sight I was starting to feel mighty discouraged. Luckily, on Wednesday I met with an orthopedic surgeon who is much more knowledgeable, and now I’m scheduled for surgery in a week and a half. I also got a brace that allows me to bend my leg more, and I went to physical therapy to help me increase my range of motion. I can actually walk on it now, though I still use crutch for support.
The downsize is I after surgery I will be in pain again and have 2 more weeks of an immobilized leg. Sigh. Then I will have to have intensive physical therapy, and 9 months of recovery. However, I am really grateful right now that I work for a physical therapy company; I know lots of great therapists! They’ve also been really great about letting me work from home.
The kids have been really helpful and patient with me. They haven’t complained about having to fetch me water refills or any of the extra work they’ve had to do. It’s been a hard adjustment for everyone, but we’re all doing well.
Melinda has been really great about the whole thing. Everyone in the ward was very impressed with her because on Sunday when I was scheduled to give my talk, Melinda just walked up and gave it for me. While we were driving up to the ski resort on Saturday she read it to me while I drove and she told me all things that I should change. So she took my talk and got to make the changes she wanted from the pulpit. Several people told me what a great job she did. She’s been so good about driving me to appointments and taking me to work and doing all the stuff that I can’t do right now. I always knew that Melinda was a great catch. She really is the bee’s knees.
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We're glad that there's finally a definitive plan and that you'll now be on the road to full recovery. I can't help but wonder what kind of a monkey-wrench this will put in for gardening. We still have strawberry plant starts we can share-although probably not for at least another month. Maybe Melinda and the kids can at least plant some strawberries.
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