Not really kite related my injury it's a long story too!
I was at the skatepark beginning of October as it was snowing so out came the old push board. Skating around doing natty little tricks over the street part of the park decided the mini ramp needed tackling so I headed over and went to drop in, too much weight over the back of the board saw me wheelie down the ramp with the nose in the air, oh ****e thinks me this is going to hurt best bail whilst I'm upright.
Right foot onto the ramp at the bottom with my left foot still on board about to take it off board and body does a quick 180 and my right knee stays still result is a popping feeling in my knee and I pass out for a second or 2 wake up on the deck, then scream like a girl stand up and hobble about for a few minutes pain subsides and I put a knee support on and carry on skating the street course just pottering nothing crazy knee feels tender and hurts when I push myself on the board but ok.
I then Drive my friend home and then go home, Missus tells me off for inuring myself and we watch telly and have a couple of beers with me saying my knee really is starting to hurt and seize up. Go to bed see knee the size of a balloon and head to the hospital at half 2 in the morning. young doctor visibly winces when I show him an Xray shows nothing except a lot of blood and no broken bones. So it's crutches and pain killers come back monday for a knee surgeon to have a look.
Agony over the weekend and going upstairs on my ass. The knee surgeon looks makes that whistling noise and says "well you really have royally wrecked your knee" Great I think never going to walk again never mind anything else. He drains 5 hooge syringes full of blood and books me an ultrasound. Ultrasound shows my meniscal cartilidge has a hole in it and my acl is torn, well we'd best get you an MRI done on that and look at surgery (this is the NHS by the way I was shocked!) MRI shows I also fractured my tibia head where it becomes part of the knee but it has healed quickly and surgery is not nesseceray.
6 Months of painkillers, glucosamine and chondrotin and devils claw light exercise and such and it's starting to get better, fingers crossed for the summer and some steady kiting. Good job my local hospital has the West Riding Knee unit on site and the knee surgeon is one of the best in the UK they really helped me out which was great,w and minimal jokes about been too old to be on a skateboard until I told him the other sports I do he told me to go back in April and he would check it for me.
Some pics of the aftermath this is before heading to casualty it was even bigger by monday.
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