Tis a tragic story really...most of you probably know about my knee, and how often it has failed me...but here's basically what happened...
2 years ago during basketball practice at the beginning of the season, I ran into one of our big guys and landed wrong on my knee. It twisted and I was down, and gettting carried off the court. Nothing serious happened really, but the injury took me out for half of the season. Even though i was out for most of the season the knee healed perfectly fine. Then a year ago while playing soccer, I jumped to head a ball and landed wrong again, on the same knee. This time it twisted, popped, and I was down, flat on my back, with everybody staring at me in shock, and the pain distorting my view of the clouds. I was sent to a doctor, the doctor told me to wait and see. So, I waited...all through last season. Became real good friends with bench...it didn't take long to realized I was going to be out the whole season, so I decided to have a positive attitude and protect my knee for my senior season. And before long my knee was in good condition and I started playing a little basketball in the summer. But I noticed that this time it didn't seem to heal very well. Sometimes I would get out of a chair and as I was standing up, my knee would slip out. It would even happen when I was just walking, or turning around. But I figured it was just the consequences for having been injured. So, my senior season came at full blast. I was going to practices, everything was fine, my knee was feeling good. And then...Thursday night, the first game of my senior basketball season, the season I had been waiting for, and protecting my knee for; I felt my knee slip again in the middle of the game. But this time it didn't resolve, it didn't just go back together, it continued to hurt, and I had to sit out the rest of the game. When I got home, my knee swelled up and I was back on crutches. But this time...I was going to no doctor, I was going to see a orthopedic specialist and get and MRI. I wanted to know what was going on. So, I went to an orthopedic specialist...and got an MRI. And only then, did I get the full story. 2 years ago, nothing horribly bad happened, but I had loosened up my knee just enough to fail the next year during soccer. And that is when I tore the ACL in my left knee. And then last Thursday I tore some cartilage also in the same knee. So I had waited and played basketball for a year on a torn acl. I waited all in vain. And now...I basically have just realized that...my senior season is over...my high school basketball career is gone.
So...
Next Tuesday, 7:30
I get my surgery, it's two hours, I'll be under full anesthesia and I'll be in the hospital for about 6 hours (including the rest). Prayers, would be awesome...
And hopefully...I can get through one more season...on the bench...
November 16, 2006
November 08, 2006
Insanity
wow...
I guess it's been a while since I posted...hmm. It's been a ridiculously insane couple of weeks! It all started last weekend. I mean, the weekend before last...I decided to take a small vacation to Pittsburgh. Ok, so maybe it wasn't exactly a vacation, but if felt like it! The main reason for going was to be apart of the Allegheny presbytery's youth conference. There were some tfy people going, so I naturally couldn't resist...Anyway, the only problem with going to this conference was that it was in Pittsburgh which happens to be 7 hours away by car. This poses some problems because I don't know how to drive to Pittsburgh and I really didn't feel like trying...And there also is the issue of gas and expenses and so on. So I decided that since I was going to be in Pittsburgh this would be a great time to visit Geneva and so then my parents would have to drive out! Which took care of the travel to Pittsburgh. However my parents couldn't stay over for the conference so I still needed a ride back to Lafayette. So I used every method I could dream up to find out if by chance I could get a ride back to Lafayette. But it was to no avail...so I had to use my last resort. I submitted a petition to my mom to see if I could ride the greyhound bus back...and amazingly my parents agreed to send me home on the greyhound bus, mainly because Luke Dinkledine found out that he could come too, and we could take the greyhound back together. Only thing was that the bus left at 12:10 am on Monday morning, and arrived in Indy at 8:00 am! So not the most convenient schedule...but sometimes you just have to take it as it comes. So anyway, we left at 3 in the morning for Pittsburgh (ok, so for you geography whizzes, I really went to Beaver falls, which is about 45 minutes north of Pittsburgh which is where Geneva is, but the conference was in Pittsburgh...) I had a lot of fun at Geneva seeing friends and crashing peoples classes, and checking out their music school. I roomed that night in the dorms with Peter Work (an amazing tfy guy) and then finished my Geneva visit on friday (which now has moved up in my college rankings), said a farewell to my parents, and then hung out with friends until the conference started. I can't even begin to describe the conference. I had a blast! The kids were great, and seeing some really good friends made it extra special. And even the greyhound bus trip back was full of just contemplating my glorious weekend...and of course, I suffered from tons of those sad/happy/depressed moods when i got back. All in all it was an amazing weekend!
So then I entered back into the mess of life here, with music, basketball, school all in full power. Also this weekend I took a trip to Kokomo on Sunday to meet with a student who goes to Ball State to get some inside info on the school of music. That didn't raise our opinions of Ball State much, something about strange professors and weird teachers...anyway, I think I need another trip to the college to see what's going on. And now, I am pretty much getting drained...I have a piano competition this Saturday, a basketball game tonight, and I run the sound system for our new church this Sunday for the first time. Which means, I'm practicing 6 hours a day on the piano, I'm working on my free throws, and I'm trying to remember how to run a sound system, along with keeping up with school, leaf blowing someone's yard, and the other half a million things I'm doing...it can get a little tiring after the third night staying up to 2 in the morning or so. But I'm working on that, and I'm getting more sleep...sort of...
With that, I leave you all to attend on my ever escalating pile of time destroying school subjects...
P.S. and after the competition, maybe I can strive to post with more consistency...maybe...
I guess it's been a while since I posted...hmm. It's been a ridiculously insane couple of weeks! It all started last weekend. I mean, the weekend before last...I decided to take a small vacation to Pittsburgh. Ok, so maybe it wasn't exactly a vacation, but if felt like it! The main reason for going was to be apart of the Allegheny presbytery's youth conference. There were some tfy people going, so I naturally couldn't resist...Anyway, the only problem with going to this conference was that it was in Pittsburgh which happens to be 7 hours away by car. This poses some problems because I don't know how to drive to Pittsburgh and I really didn't feel like trying...And there also is the issue of gas and expenses and so on. So I decided that since I was going to be in Pittsburgh this would be a great time to visit Geneva and so then my parents would have to drive out! Which took care of the travel to Pittsburgh. However my parents couldn't stay over for the conference so I still needed a ride back to Lafayette. So I used every method I could dream up to find out if by chance I could get a ride back to Lafayette. But it was to no avail...so I had to use my last resort. I submitted a petition to my mom to see if I could ride the greyhound bus back...and amazingly my parents agreed to send me home on the greyhound bus, mainly because Luke Dinkledine found out that he could come too, and we could take the greyhound back together. Only thing was that the bus left at 12:10 am on Monday morning, and arrived in Indy at 8:00 am! So not the most convenient schedule...but sometimes you just have to take it as it comes. So anyway, we left at 3 in the morning for Pittsburgh (ok, so for you geography whizzes, I really went to Beaver falls, which is about 45 minutes north of Pittsburgh which is where Geneva is, but the conference was in Pittsburgh...) I had a lot of fun at Geneva seeing friends and crashing peoples classes, and checking out their music school. I roomed that night in the dorms with Peter Work (an amazing tfy guy) and then finished my Geneva visit on friday (which now has moved up in my college rankings), said a farewell to my parents, and then hung out with friends until the conference started. I can't even begin to describe the conference. I had a blast! The kids were great, and seeing some really good friends made it extra special. And even the greyhound bus trip back was full of just contemplating my glorious weekend...and of course, I suffered from tons of those sad/happy/depressed moods when i got back. All in all it was an amazing weekend!
So then I entered back into the mess of life here, with music, basketball, school all in full power. Also this weekend I took a trip to Kokomo on Sunday to meet with a student who goes to Ball State to get some inside info on the school of music. That didn't raise our opinions of Ball State much, something about strange professors and weird teachers...anyway, I think I need another trip to the college to see what's going on. And now, I am pretty much getting drained...I have a piano competition this Saturday, a basketball game tonight, and I run the sound system for our new church this Sunday for the first time. Which means, I'm practicing 6 hours a day on the piano, I'm working on my free throws, and I'm trying to remember how to run a sound system, along with keeping up with school, leaf blowing someone's yard, and the other half a million things I'm doing...it can get a little tiring after the third night staying up to 2 in the morning or so. But I'm working on that, and I'm getting more sleep...sort of...
With that, I leave you all to attend on my ever escalating pile of time destroying school subjects...
P.S. and after the competition, maybe I can strive to post with more consistency...maybe...
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