Salina

Reply to a comment here on the blog (the first from an unknown reader!)

Salina,
Thank you for your comment! I see figures and stats on who's reading, but I rarely get to know who you are! I'm glad you find the blog useful :) I know as I was going into this surgery (not to talk about the first one, but that was back in the day - 2005 - before blogging became a 'thing'. Gosh, I'm old...) I would have liked to have something like this to refer back to, even if every rehab is different.

And please don't take my recent depressing posts too seriously. If you are going in for your first ACL reconstruction, you'll be fine :) Yes, it will suck a lot of the time, and yes, it will be boring. But you can still go back to whatever activity you like to do, and with a little luck you can continue/work towards practising it at a high level. Also if you're using a hamstring graft, the first 2 months will be tough but after that it's just go-go-go! With the patella it's usually a long drawn-out fight, but with an easier beginning.

Good luck! And please let me know how it goes. If you have any questions at all, or want to share your story (maybe you'll set up a blog?!) e-mail me at ladypretentious@gmail.com. It's always nice to have someone who's been there, someone who knows.

Jo x

ps. and don't worry. The surgery itself is the best part: being sedated and then people taking care of you. Sort of the calm before the epic storm that is to come. But all storms calm down eventually, and you just gotta ride it out :)