My boy has a little booboo

My 15 y/o got a little booboo in his knee last week and we finally have the results from the MRI and doctor said that my son Steven did the following to his right knee:



1. Tore his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).

2 Strained his posterior cruciate ligament (PCL)

3. Strained his medial collateral ligament (MCL)

4. Strained his lateral collateral ligament (LCL)

5. Tore both menisci



He is being operated on Nov. 1 and then he will be out of school for about a week. He is going to milk this for all it's worth. Daddy, go fetch this. Daddy, go fetch that.



And then it's six month of conditioning to get the knee back in shape for football next year and praying that it heals properly.



The best that we can figure is that when he went to tackle the ball carrier on a kickoff return, he twisted his knee badly when his cleats decided not to twist with him. When he heard the pop in his knee, he stopped and was in the process of dropping when some guy from the other team lit him up and creamed him. It was not a good night for him.



This is why I haven't been around too much lately.

Ouch, Luckily knee surgery has evolved a LOT. As young as he is, he'll probably heal a lot better than if it happened to you. ;)

declocoug wrote:
Ouch, Luckily knee surgery has evolved a LOT. As young as he is, he'll probably heal a lot better than if it happened to you. ;)

that is exactly what the doctor told me and I thanked him for reminding me just how archaic I am. My son found a lot of humor in that and when I reminded him that payback is hell, he laughed even harder. :~(

Sorry to hear that. I tore my ACL recently and its taken a lot of patience to rehab properly. I wish him a speedy and complete recovery!

If you're going to injure your knee, you might as well do it all the way!

That's a serious injury!! A tough experience for a young man.



Did you get that lecture behind the closed door from your wife: "That's why I didn't want him playing football!!" I know I would have.



Good luck to your son with the re-hab!!! Sounds like you have a good Dr. Bestwishes to your boy & you. Now - listen to your son & "git steppin'!!" LOL!!!

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Sounds almost exactly like what happened to Cole Herrmann (son of Jim Herrmann on the '84 team) on the BYU team earlier this year. Best of luck!

......Which resulted in a torn daddiscus.

Dude, bummer. All our best during the recovery process!



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Hope he can recover in time to be able to show BYU his stuff, get recruited and become a big time get for us.

hawkwing wrote:
Hope he can recover in time to be able to show BYU his stuff, get recruited and become a big time get for us.

He's just a freshman and no sports for six months is killing him.