Our family had quite a scare Sunday. My Son and I headed up to a community college to do a showcase, mainly because it would be an enjoyable way to spend the afternoon. We were sitting in the bleachers in the warm sun when the head of the showcase asked everyone to move to the other set of bleachers in the shade. So we got up to move and my Son took a step and felt a grinding and then his knee gave out.
He was in severe pain, so we rushed to the Emergency Room in our home town about 90 miles away. We did not have to wait long and got in and had an x-ray done. Then we got to meet with the physician’s assistant manning the ER. When the x-ray came up everything looked normal except for an oval shaped disk right between his tibia and femur joint. It was smooth. The PA thought it was a “foreign body”. But when the Orthopedic Surgeon looked at the x-ray via a remote computer while at a Super Bowl party he said classic ACL tear! We were devastated to say the least, and on Monday morning we called to try to get an appointment ASAP. We got scheduled for Friday (tomorrow), but no MRI scheduled. After school the Trainer looked at my Son and indicated that his knee seemed too stable for an ACL tear. We tried to get an MRI scheduled but the Doc has surgeries Tuesday-Thursday and could not be reached to write a prescription. We got a call out of the blue from a family friend who used to practice medicine and she told me she would write a prescription for an MRI. So yesterday I called and we got in today, after much fear and prayer we got the results that we could only hope for…No ACL tear and no soft tissue damage. Praise God!
He has what is called a “floater”. Apparently many years ago he may have damaged his knee and broken off a small bone chip that has been floating around for years (since it has smooth rounded edges) and it just worked its way down into his joint where it caused him severe pain.
He goes to the OS Friday and hopefully will have surgery early next week. It should take him about 2-3 weeks to recover and then he will be as good as he ever was.
It was a tough 4 days though. A lot of emotion running around our family. Thank God for happy endings!
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