Hey everyone.
I am really hoping to go try skiing again this year. Skiing is how I broke the leg originally, so I will be freaking terrified, but I want to try again. I don't think I want to...

Hey Everyone. I have been away for a long time now--mostly because the healing started really progressing, and I have felt so great! Just to recap--here's what the initial XRay looked like after a...

Hey SoccerGirl, I am right there with you. I am now down to a cane instead of one crutch because my PT said I was leaning all wrong when using the crutch and it was going to mess me up. I too am...

Hi Nina.
I don't have the IT band issue, but I do have terrible pains on the injury side where my leg and pelvis meet up (crotch area). I think I just overuse it from walking improperly. At...

My doc okayed me to drive right away. My injury was also to the right leg but he said as long as I used two feet and only breaked (is that a word?) with the left leg I would be fine. Accelerating...

I have to second what Nina just said. I am no doctor, but everything I have been told and read says minimum 8 weeks until PWB, and a lot of docs say 12 weeks minimum. I think the excessive swelling...

Thanks for that reply, Ryanrene! It is so funny that it helps so much, but it definitely does, just to read that someone else knows exactly what I am going through. I love your idea of rolling the...

Hi Nurse Nina.
Glad that Tylenol helps you. It doesn't do anything for me! I posted this earlier, but I feel like I might as well eat a Tic Tac for all the help a Tylenol would give me.
Today I...

Hey guys!
I have been gone for a week--a close cousin died on Easter morning in an auto crash (19 years old), so we were there for the funeral. What a disaster.
On the TPF note, though, I have to...

Okay! Here are a few more pictures...
Pre-Op CT scan of my injury:
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Staple shots prior to removal. I have a large incision on the outside of my right knee, and a smaller one on the inside....

Okay, that was weird. You pretty much just described exactly what the PT told me to do today! I wish you had been around a week or so ago. :)
Amanda

WOAH Mike! Thanks for those pics. You are another one that humbles me. I especially like the picture of the clamp mid-surgery. That's one I seriously would frame and hang on the wall if I were...

Oh, Amy, that's just crazy! But you didn't spill the water...that made me laugh. And I needed that. I would understand if it was a beer,but water? :) I will report back tomorrow after PT and I...

Man, Amy. I have to admit that looking at your XRays just made me burst into tears. I still am in such denial and disbelief that I hurt myself this badly, to actually belong with this group. I was...

I like those PT questions--they will help me too if someone chimes in! I will tell you that I went and just did some of my own PT in the pool at the local rec center on Sunday and I can tell you it...

Matt--I don't know your history that well since I am so new, but I am glad you are here. I am really loving this site and I can use all of the advice you can give since you are further along than I...

That's funny, Chris, I work literally two blocks from the convention center. I have been watching the Women's NCAA crowds roam downtown lately from my office window.
My insurance is thru Kaiser,...

That's just the thing--he IS my follow up doctor. I wish so badly I could just have kept seeing the docs who did the surgery--they are Vail-based absolute aces who work on the likes of Lindsey Vonn....

Thanks East Mtn! It is nice to get the feedback that wanting PT does not make me crazy, or just a big baby. I want to be sure I do this right, so I recover as quickly and fully as possible. I am...

Hi Everyone.
I am new here and am finding all of these posts very helpful. I am 6 weeks post-op and have found my normally very upbeat, positive self very depressed lately and feeling like I will...