How Does Acl Change My Life

Tearing my ACL has caused me to change my entire life and give up some of the sports that I loved in high school. Sports have always been an important part of my life, and then something tragic happened. While I was in high school I participated in Football, Weight lifting, Wrestling, and Track. Participating in these activates were always a way for me to get away and do something that I loved, until my Junior year of football which is when everything suddenly changed. Due to the freak accident it has caused me to give up some sports and activates, but has also made me to become more cautious when I participate in any physical or nonphysical activates. I wonder if I will every feel like how I use to before my accident, or if I will ever forget …show more content…
It was our fourth game of the football season, only a few minuet’s left until half-time when the tragedy happened. I was playing outside linebacker, as the other team did a run to my side. I went in for the tackle and simultaneously another teammate of mine was too. That’s when all the weight of both players caused my knee to go one way and I the other way. All I felt were two snaps like grabbing a stick and snapping it in half. The pain hit me like a ton of bricks and I knew something was wrong. My coaches and medical staff came running over as I laid on the ground. My knee was swelling up like a grape fruit and everyone had thought my knee cap was broken. I was taking off the field and rushed to the hospital. Where I found out the existent of my injury. The doctor came in and told me my season was over and that I was going to need surgery and physical therapy which would put me out for six to nine months. Seven months later I am almost done with physical therapy, it was a grueling seven months of relearning how to walk, run, and getting my strength back in my leg. At the doctors for my last visit he tells me I will have to wear my knee brace for any physical actives and that now I have a higher risk of retiring my ACL