Week 21 - Injury Update

This week I had a few appointments for my knee. 


The first one was with the sports medicine specialist.  We have made the decision to not pursue surgery to repair my ACL.  My knee is currently extremely stable.  She feels that I could potentially end up with less range of motion and a stiffer knee with the surgery - not to mention the downtime afterwards.  The clincher for me was that right now, I am doing almost everything I want to do in kung fu (still not ready to fly yet).  If I were to pursue the surgery, I would be off the mats for almost a year.  She was pleased with the range of motion I have gained back.  It is almost at the same place as my good knee.  The swelling is also almost gone.  I have also noticed a huge improvement in the bone bruising (that was until we did kneel walking in class the other day, that was not so fun).  She has also recommended that I try to get a specific sleeve for my knee to help with stability (and my fear), perhaps with time we will look into a sports brace if needed.  I get to keep working on my strength for the summer and go back to see her in the fall.


The second appointment was with my friend of torture - the physiotherapist.  She is also thrilled to pieces with how things are looking.  I was given some more exercises to work on.  We have now started incorporating some jumping...  Did I mention some fear above...  Little itty, bitty jumps with lots of control.  I get to go back and see her in 6 weeks.


All in all, the update is all good news.  I am to keep on working hard.  The only area of my life at this point that the injury is still impacting is kung fu and as I build strength and courage, I am finding that is even less and less.


In the rest of life, it was also a pretty good week.  We stuck close to home with most of our outings being to the kwoon.  This was very helpful on the numbers front.


Here are my YTD totals as of the end of week 21:
Push ups             17,744
Sit ups                20,715
Kempo                  174
Staff                      262
Sparring                390
KM                       405.7
AoK                     405
Personal Goals:
Gratitude Journal  422
Piano                     33.75 hours
Books finished       11 
Daily fruit - 120 days
365 photo challenge - 99 days
Daily journal - 138 days