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Finally...Geez!
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Location: Blogs Mat's Journal |
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| Posted by: mat |
Tuesday, April 03, 2007 12:09 PM |
Hello my website peeps. I know I’ve said this may times, but I plan to keep my site current…. starting now! If not I’ve informed Page he can beat me silly until I post something. The plan is every Monday I’ll post something, anything - which I’m already late for, but we just put this plan into action yesterday, so I don’t get beat this time.
Hello my website peeps. I know I’ve said this may times, but I plan to keep my site current…. starting now! If not I’ve informed Page he can beat me silly until I post something. The plan is every Monday I’ll post something, anything - which I’m already late for, but we just put this plan into action yesterday, so I don’t get beat this time.
Ok, let’s see here… lets start here:
I snapped my ACL in Dubai this past December. I wasn't doing anything major. It was a can-can look back and I got my kneepad caught on my bike coming out of it and I ejected. The impact snapped my synthetic. Thinking back through everything I think I just wore myself out that day. I found a drop zone earlier that day, I brought my skydive gear with me so I jumped all day, made it back just before the show and jacked myself up on something simple. I was exhausted and my mind was satisfied, so I was going through the motions and wasn't focused. Live and learn. But I did get some good shots of the Dubai desert from the sky during a 10 thousand foot freefall.
Yeah, it was funny... I knew I had torn it, because it's the 6th time I tore my ACL, but it had a stopping point when you tested it so the Meds at the event and my doctor both thought it could be something else. I went into the surgery thinking it could be my meniscus or articular cartilage, but I had gotten a new synthetic ACL a couple days before from doing a case study, so I brought it just in case. My Doctor, Dr. Yates, saw me right before surgery and I told him I knew it may be unlikely that my ACL was torn from the examination, but the pain feels real familiar so I brought a new synthetic ACL just in case. He laughed because he hadn't had someone bring their own body parts to surgery. I gave him my consent to put it in if the other was torn and he put it in his pocket.
They opened me up and sure enough my ACL was torn, so the rest of the medical staff was like, "lets clean up and sow him up and schedule another surgery" and Yates pulled the ligament out of him pocket and said I gave him a new one right before surgery. They laughed at the unconscious body on the table then put it in.
It's April now and I still can't hold a good pump on vert, my knee just won’t fully heal… so I’ve been riding a local ditch by my house. That’s been fun, but I want more. That was my 20th operation, so my body is pissed and probably over it, so it seems to be taking longer, but I'll be back, just getting anxious to blast!!
That was my 20th operation and it happens to be the 20th anniversary of my first tour - 1987 Skyway tour! - Ain’t nohtin’ changed but my limp.
More to come – weekly - I promise or like I said I’ll post pictures of Page beating me down.
-Mat
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