Anterior Cruciate Ligament

or better known as the ACL. i can almost guarantee that this picture is as close to my real right knee xray as can get. on January 21st i tore my ACL. the diagnosis was a "bruised knee" haa! nope, when i got that MRI i did get the bad news that i had a torn ACL, and possibly tore one or both of my menisci. (those horseshoe shaped things on either side of the tear.) today is the third time after the original injury that i repeated the injury, perhaps tearing it even more. by my first MRI, the doctor said that it may have been partially torn but either way i would have to undergo reconstructive surgery to place a faux ACL, in layman's terms- a strip of ligament from the other huge ligament in the knee, and 9 to 12 months of rehab to make the reconstructed ligament back to almost 100% because it would be used to functioning as the ACL. anywaayy. the first time i messed it up, i was reenacting my friend's dodging of a flung bottle cap. it popped lightly out and back in. (because the ACL is what holds the knee in place from going directions it's not supposed to go.) the second time was when i was playing volleyball (bad idea) and i kinda landed wrong. mucho pain. today was probably the worse since the real thing. playing basketball (my sport that i legitimately haven't played in more than a year) and after a good 30 minutes of playing, was the instant that i am very much regretting right now. i currently am running on two advils to numb the pain a whole lot, and my knee is on ice as we speak.

note to self: please stop hurting yourself.