Injury Update

A brief history...

Sport (estimated years of organized play)

• Baseball (10 years)
• Wrestling (8 years)
• Flag Football (1 year)
• Soccer (5 years)
• Cross Country (4 years)
• Track (2 years)
• Tennis (8 years)
• Ultimate (9 years)

Now this is adds up to about 47 seasons. In all that time, I have never been injured in play and had to leave a game. Well, to the best of my knowledge. This past week at Sectionals, I jumped to D a huck. I didn't touch it and he didn't catch it. When I came down on my right leg, my knee was buckled. This caused it to hyperextend. I took a minute to think about my streak and tried to stand up. This didn't go well and I took my injury, like an old old man. About 30 minutes later I was back to about 95% and played the second half of the game.

By the next day, I really couldn't move my knee very much. Jenny recommend a doctor's visit (typical med school advice). After passing up the suggestion, I went on with my day. Later that day Jenny tested my knee with what tricks of the trade she knows and listened intently to my play by play account of the injury and picked the PCL as the culprit for the pain. She probably still thinks a proper doctor's visit would have been a better choice.

As of Friday, I am able to buckle my leg. Now I can bring it almost all the way back. So things are looking good for Regionals next weekend. I hope to test it out at Track on Wednesday.

Time to start the streak again. I hope that I can reach 50 injury free seasons this time.