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On the eighth of this month, I dislocated my right knee. I was hitting a tennis ball against a long wall with a ping-pong paddle when I tried to run along the wall, sideways, when I stepped a bit to hard on my right leg. With an audible scrape and pop, I had dislocated my right kneecap. Paramedics came quickly at 10:03, and it was put back in place, but still it feels kind of weird. I can bend my knee, though it feels slightly tight. The picture for that day is the Moon with inverted colors, which is a pretty accurate representation of my round, swollen knee, and the picture from 3/8/18 and 3/8/20 pretty much sum up how it felt. I am in a leg brace and on crutches. I should be fully functional by the twenty-third.

3/8/22:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220308.html

3/8/18:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180308.html

3/8/20:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200308.html

Based on the amount of views, and despite the lack of replies, I assume that many of you would like to know that I have fully recovered, and am back to my normal activities. I am, though, still cautious to take up tennis again, but hope my fear will vanish as my pain and inabilities have.

I'm glad you've recovered!

As someone else once put it, knees are the argument against the notion of "intelligent design."

Good luck with the recovery; if they tell you to do physical therapy, do it, and take it easy as you get back into old activities. I feel your pain! I had a knee injury in my early 30s. I ended up with a torn and folded meniscus. It was a very, very long recovery but I am thankful that my knee healed up very nearly to the point of being "normal" again.

Thank you, and yeah, I was told to do physical therapy; I did do physical therapy. But I'm past it. I've done all the physical therapy and no longer need to. That's what I meant by fully recovered; no crutches, no brace, no PT; fully recovered. And I have been, for about a month; I just never got around to posting about it. I even had MRI done to see if I had any torn cartilage or needed surgery. I didn't. My knee now is "normal" like you said, with the occasional soreness or heart-stopping pop that really just makes me stop what I'm doing and make a mental note to not ever make the same motion again.

Orca wrote: ↑Wed Jun 22, 2022 5:40 am Good luck with the recovery; if they tell you to do physical therapy, do it, and take it easy as you get back into old activities. I feel your pain! I had a knee injury in my early 30s. I ended up with a torn and folded meniscus. It was a very, very long recovery but I am thankful that my knee healed up very nearly to the point of being "normal" again.