Ok, another story for you all that I think you might enjoy.
In highschool I played basketball and ended up blowing my knee (tearing my ACL) during my junior year and had to have reconstructive surgery and everything. So I've always been really careful about my knees now and about other people's knees. So what is the first thing I think about when H is going on this skiing trip? I hope he doesn't hurt his knees.
Knee injuries are high in skiing especially for someone who is a little out of shape and hasn't been skiing more than once in the past six years... I just got the phone call.
H was skiing down a green hill (for you non-ski people, that's one step up from the bunny hill) when he went over a jump and felt his knee pop. The first thing that went through his head was "Oh no, Calystra's gonna be mad at me now...". He tried to land on his body so he wouldn't do any more damage to his knee as he's heard me talk about how bad it is if you do extra damage to an already damaged knee and succeeded. Luckily his dad was right behind him so he was transported down to the clinic and they checked everything out.
From having been through this I know they can't tell him if it's bad or not without an MRI - which they don't have there - so they took some X-rays to make sure nothing was broken and felt around a little. They say that he probably sprained his MCL and possibly a little cartilage damage but he should get it checked out when he gets home. So he might be home a little earlier than planned ... or he and his dad might find something else to do out there.
He's doing ok now, in a bit of pain and his neck hurts from the landing. In his defense about the green hill part, he was off on some side trails through the woods that were probably harder than green... I really shouldn't be laughing as much as I am at this part, my poor baby needs some sympathy.
