Monday, February 14, 2011

ACL goes kaboom .... The Long road to recovery

December 2nd after hitting a silly little kicker at Monarch mountain and landing just a bit wrong I managed to blow my knee. Shit.
From Colorado w Alex
MRI revealed a severed ACL, possible small tear to lateral meniscus, minor gastrocnemius strain and bilateral posterior tibial bone bruising. The bone bruising caused excruciating pain with ambulation for the first week and was therefore on crutches.

Two months later, after a fabulously refreshing two and a half week vacation in baja Mexico beach camping with my boyfriend Alex, I was back and ready for surgery. February 9th I had ACL reconstruction with hamstring replacement and 40% meniscus removal with regional nerve block and general anesthesia.

1 comments:

Liz said...

And so it begins - Kate's return to conquer the world!! :)