Knee

16 October

Training (10a)

Was going in to hit my training early because we were heading to Charleston for a long weekend for Jess' sisters wedding. Did the same warmup/mobility that I have literally done thousands of times, about 40 minutes worth. Hit my first set of power snatches at 75# like normal and felt my hips a little tight. Walked over to an upright and squatted down and flossed around at the bottom of my squat, did a few air squats and about the 5th one, felt a little pop in my knee, no real pain associated with the pop but couldn't straighten my leg. Felt like my knee had to crack or something but I knew what it was. It was the same thing I had done 6 years ago, torn meniscus. 

This happened at about 10a on Wednesday, I could still squat and walk and do everything, just couldn't straighten my leg. Stopped the workout and decided to go home and ice. Still felt fine, then I got in the car and drove 4 hours to Charleston Wednesday afternoon. I got out of the car and couldn't put any pressure on my leg. From there it just got worse, to the point I couldn't walk or move without lots of pain. I got a ride back to Charlotte Thursday morning and got into see an Ortho that afternoon. Luckily, he was able to schedule the surgery for the next day, which was awesome. 

The doc went in and found alot of scar tissue from my previous surgery 6 years ago when they did a repair to the meniscus. He was surprised this didn't happen quite a while ago. He ended up taking about 30% of the lateral meniscus and smoothed out my patella while he was in there. 

Walked out of the hospital with only swelling and some pain. It has been about 5 days since the surgery and there is still some swelling and I am missing about 20% range of motion....but its getting better everyday. Should be about 10-14 days before I can get back to it.