Sunday, October 10, 2010

I went to the zoo yesterday......

with my family for Canadian Thanksgiving......having a great time look at all the super cute baby animals and then I tripped on a wet floor in the gorilla cage and I fractured my patella on the lateral side and re tore/made my ACL/MCL tear worse.

Perfect huh?

I'm back on crutches and in a zimmer brace. I can't put any weight on my foot. I'm back at square one. Awesome huh?

They took x rays again. There is a new fracture/evulsion on the lateral side now, as opposed to the medial side from the first injury. The medial fracture was healing nicely, but he saw a bunch of torn scar tissue, so I re injured that too.

Nice eh?

So they're re-referring me to the cast clinic where I'll see another orthopedic surgeon. Hopefully they'll push for an MRI faster because this is a re-occurance and now I'll most likely 100% need surgery now. Beautiful.

FYI- An evulsion is when the ligament(in my case) tears off the bone taking a portion of the bone along with the torn ligament.

I have super mixed feelings about what is going on right now. I was just starting to work out again. I was loving all the freedoms and I was starting to feel normal again. I had just learned how to walk heel to toe, rather than toe to heel like I had been in the brace...now I'm back to toe-heel.

I'm off work again. Ugh. ha.

<3

3 comments:

Wesley Eff said...

Hmmm pretty much you have some crappy luck. But Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

Wesley Eff said...

Hmmm pretty much you have some crappy luck. But Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

Lachele said...

Ha thanks I didn't have much of an appitite but it was awesome!

I have the worst luck ever BUT for the last 23 years I've had decent luck-so I guess its all just catching up with me;)