Driss-A-Blog

It was a lot of fun. I played for about 40 minutes. I was running after a girl who was about to take a shot, and my left knee buckled and I went down. I tried to walk it off and re-join the game...and it buckled again. So I walked home. It didn't hurt, but it was uncomfortable and felt funny. I went to bed and hoped that it would feel better in the morning. Needless to say it didn't. So I hobbled to school, my knee buckled twice on the stairs in the front of the school, and I started crying out of pure frustration (it still didn't hurt).

Anyway, I made some phone calls trying to get an appointment. I got one for last Thursday morning. On the positive side, I got to sleep in till 8:30am, yeah! I had to be there by 10:15. I filled out a ton of paperwork, got x-rays, and had the doctors look at me. They were very impressed. They think that I tore my ACL and we scheduled the MRI. How exciting. This is a whole new world. I like the doctor, he explained everything patiently even when I interrupted him with my own questions. He explained the different options from no surgery to what kinds of surgery there are to choose from. They gave me a brace to hold my knee together so it won't buckle anymore. That was the biggest brocho. I still feel the knee buckle but I know that at least it's not going to come out from under me.

Since then my knee has been slowly getting better. I can now go up the stairs with both legs (rather than just dragging the left). Today I started going down the stairs with both legs, but slowly holding onto the rail. Slowly it's coming along.

Tonight is the MRI at 6:30 and the results should be back on Thursday. Then the decision making begins. G-d willing whatever has to happen will go well.