May 21, 2015

Yes I had surgery on my left knee for a torn ACL, the process for the actual surgery itself was pretty easy, I remember waking up after and not even being sure if I had the surgery or not yet. But the first 3 days afterwords were complete h---, it's the worst I ever felt physically. I had pain meds but they didn't seem to do much. Then I had to do 2-3 months of physical therapy, it was quite a long process but not too bad other than those first few days after.

 

May 21, 2015

s--- dude, you're tough as h---. I've been in PT for the past month due to irritated cartilage from Runner's Knee, I can only imagine tearing your ACL. Can you still play sports?

 

May 22, 2015

There is some tough procedures, surgery in here. Hope y'all doing fine now.

 

May 21, 2015

Yep I can, when I started the physical therapy she basically asked me how active I intend to be (meaning just normal walking for life, sports or whatever) and I said I'd like to at least be able to play sports(mainly basketball) again for fun. So I guess she based my PT plan off of that. It's kinda crazy we started out doing very basic things like leg lifts and I was eventually sprinting up hills, running on treadmills, etc lol. She did recommend I shouldn't ski again though and also said I shouldn't do that machine at the gym (forget what it's called, not the leg press) where you basically lift from your foot area and up at an angle. She said for that machine, people can actually get injured just using that machine even if they weren't injured before, I thought that sounded crazy since I used to do that machine all the time lol but I'm guessing she knows what she's talking about.

But yeah PT gets pretty intense at times.

 

May 21, 2015

Title explains it all