So WHAT happened to your leg?

With my injury in slow repair (finally), I've had a lot of folks asking what went wrong with the whole thing... here, to the best of my understanding, is a general rundown... (I claim absolutely no medical knowledge, please don't judge me...)

When I hit the floor last summer...

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Was pushed out of place, so that nifty little bone that the line points to was pushed out from under the overlying bone that comes down from the knee. At the same time...

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Got sent the wrong way when I hit my hip on the floor. When I went to physical therapy, they attempted to put my ankle back in place but didn't really do anything for it and at the end when I said it didn't feel quite right, they told me to just keep doing those exercises and I'd be A-OK. Note that they did NOT do anything for my hip, against my protests.

What I've come to understand from Carl (my new PT and possible wizard or some other practitioner of dark and magical arts) is that due to the position of my ankle...

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got so screwed up that my hips weren't functioning properly and my lower leg wasn't functioning properly and that caused my knee to go all wonky and give out!

So basically, we're re-strengthening my knees, re-aligning my hips, completely loosened up my hip flexors and abdominal muscles to re-train them, and did some crazy massive acupuncture on my calf (which didn't go deep enough, so now I have a huge knot next to a bundle of nerves which is KILLING me!). I'm sore, but doing a lot better now-- when I think about the fact that at this time last month I couldn't walk I'm amazed! I still have a long way to go before I can hit up Desiree's class again, but I walked all over Zoo Atlanta on Wednesday for the field trip and didn't want to die when I got home and Carl says he'll probably clear me to climb Stone Mountain next week! HOORAY FOR PROGRESS!

Best for last?

For those of you who remember last summer's great ankle debacle caused by the total inability of an individual to clean a puddle of water, it's come back to haunt me!!

The last few months my ankle has been bothering me more and more, which led me to favor it-- had I thought about it, I would have fixed it but... that's not how things work! Instead, I went to step over a sweater nearly two weeks ago and my knee suddenly felt like there was a screwdriver under the kneecap!

I got in to the orthopedist surprisingly fast, and he set me up with six weeks of physical therapy. He confirmed my suspicion (and Iggy's) that it was due to my ankle never healing properly. I'm hoping to get reimbursement for at least part of it from worker's comp since the case was never closed by a doctor and DeKalb Medical never followed up on that.

Anyways, prayers, positive thoughts, good mojo, all that jazz is totally appreciated! I would really rather not have surgery on my ankle!