Day 31-today

So, here we go again, after exactly two weeks. Last time I wrote, I had just gotten home from a spinning session and the morning after I felt a cold coming. Due to the surgery that I was going to have the Tuesday after (Tuesday last week), I had to stay free from all sorts of infections and illnesses and because of that I didn't do any exercise except for some minor physio therapy up until the day of operation.
The arthroscopy went well and the anaesthesia was just purely awesome. Afterwards, the doctor came to me and said that what they had found out was that my cruciate ligament is 50% torn and that it is the half of the ligament that controls the rotation stability (tell me about it, I've felt that a couple of times). Also, I had lots of scar tissue between the kneecap and the ligament which they erased while they were in there. No pain during the first couple of days and straight after I woke up I felt that extending the leg was much easier. She also said that there are two alternatives to consider at the return visit in 6 weeks:

1. If I have managed to built a muscle power sufficient to keep the knee stabilized in every motion and rotation, I most likely won't have to do the surgery when they repair the ligament.
2. If muscle power just isn't enough, I will have to do the surgery and that would mean a rehabilitation period of 6-9 months. That is saying that I won't be able to play floorball until 2012 and thinking about that is just causing a mental breakdown.

However, the good thing in this is that I according to the doctor actually have a chance to not do the surgery. If they had thought that "No way that you're gonna play with that knee", they would have repaired the ligament instantly or booked in a new operation straight away. So, what I have to do for the next couple of weeks is to live at the gym and get steroid-legs. Have been to the physio therapist once since the surgery and going there this Friday as well. In the beginning of next week I can start working with the machines at the gym but will have to create a new programme with lighter weights and fewer repetitions to get the knee used to exercising again.

Just took the last bandage off my knee and see two small dots. Those scars will be pretty at my wedding...