ACL Surgery

On October 29th, I am going to have the biggest surgery of my life. As I was playing football over the summer, I tore my MCL and had to go to the hospital. I went through alot of physical therapy and was finally getting back into shape. I worked with Mclean County Orthopedics so I could hopefully get back into sports this year and be ready for football in the spring. I finally got cleared on August 17th, the day before move-in at ISU. On my first day here, I decided to test my knee in my brace on the basketball courts at Manchester. As I came down on one play, my leg got caught on the curb and I heard my leg snap. My friends called the ambulance because I was in alot of pain and could not walk, but it still felt just like when I had torn my MCL, not my ACL. The doctor finally said that he also thought that I had just torn the MCL without any further damage. However, once I visited my doctor at Mclean County Orthopedics, I found out I had torn my MCL, my ACL, and even some of my cartilage. Now I have to go through a huge arthroscopic surgery where they take a ligament from a cadaver, cut it up into the shape of what my ACL should look like, and drill through two of my main leg bones to fit the ACL into place. I will have to go through at least 5 months of rehab in hopes of playing sports ever again and I will be in a full leg brace and crutches for awhile at school. This is going to be really tough for me, but hopefully I can get through the worst of it and come back as good as I was or even better.