firecracker22
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- Oct 23, 2000
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Yet again, I have placed myself on the injured list, this time in no way connected with bikes. I was sitting on a tall gate when a drunk guy started swinging it back and forth. I hit the ground--and felt a familiar popping crunch in my FORMERLY good knee. A week later (even with constant ibuprofen and ice) the swelling is NOT going down, the pain is getting worse not better, and it's clear that I torqued some ligaments and tendons all up. Tuesday is the soonest I could see an orthopaedist so I won't know for another few days whether or not I will need surgery.
I can't believe I ruined the best part of the riding season! Cooler temps, a little more moisture (even if it's just dew at night) to keep the dust down, still nice enough to go out on the lake (on my new wakeboard), and the fire closures start opening back up. And I can't ride. I have races coming up, I just started riding my mountain bike a little more, plus snow season isn't far away. If I have surgery now I might be able to salvage the second half of the snowboard season. If this had happened in, say, June or July, it'd be a little easier to deal with; I don't like hot weather anyway, and there's not much riding when it's that hot out so I would have had time to get better.
Of course I may not need surgery, but even if I don't, it'll be a LONG recuperation. I definitely popped something important. If they don't cut me open, I will ride anyway, but will have to keep to the easy stuff.
The thing that fires me up . . . why are knees so dammed easy to hurt? I'm in decent physical shape, I ride bicycles and work out at the gym, and this last incident didn't even involve sports or anything! My mother, who has knee injuries also, firmly believes that there is something about our family that gives us weak knees--as in easily injured. Not too sure on that one but the evidence points that way.
I want to scream--I hate being hurt!!! Especially for such a stupid reason. Only my friends know the real story--anybody who asks what's wrong with my leg who I'm not likely to encounter ever again, I tell them I crashed my dirt bike. :laugh:
I can't believe I ruined the best part of the riding season! Cooler temps, a little more moisture (even if it's just dew at night) to keep the dust down, still nice enough to go out on the lake (on my new wakeboard), and the fire closures start opening back up. And I can't ride. I have races coming up, I just started riding my mountain bike a little more, plus snow season isn't far away. If I have surgery now I might be able to salvage the second half of the snowboard season. If this had happened in, say, June or July, it'd be a little easier to deal with; I don't like hot weather anyway, and there's not much riding when it's that hot out so I would have had time to get better.
Of course I may not need surgery, but even if I don't, it'll be a LONG recuperation. I definitely popped something important. If they don't cut me open, I will ride anyway, but will have to keep to the easy stuff.
The thing that fires me up . . . why are knees so dammed easy to hurt? I'm in decent physical shape, I ride bicycles and work out at the gym, and this last incident didn't even involve sports or anything! My mother, who has knee injuries also, firmly believes that there is something about our family that gives us weak knees--as in easily injured. Not too sure on that one but the evidence points that way.
I want to scream--I hate being hurt!!! Especially for such a stupid reason. Only my friends know the real story--anybody who asks what's wrong with my leg who I'm not likely to encounter ever again, I tell them I crashed my dirt bike. :laugh:
