Knee

So the saga of my knee continues. It has never been addressed here, but it is continuing anyway.

I went to a sports medicine doctor yesterday, and he feels it is very likely that I tore my acl long ago (skiing about 7 or 8 years ago) and we will have an MRI to confirm

I have never had such an encouraging doctor though. I began at one point to reassure him that I had no fantasies of ever competing in judo again... I just wanted to be functional. He addressed each of my concerns... Age, weight, joints.....And I felt a bit like he really thought the only thing holding me back if I got my knee fixed was the training I have missed in the last 12-14 years. He didn't push too much... But now I have that goofy fantasy again

maybe not national levels... But a little competition maybe. We'll see. We'll see what the mri shows, and there is still the meniscus tear on the left knee... Lots of little things... But maybe I can be more active than I thought. Scary

I had just about began to be ok with just working towards coaching and eventually refereeing. I think those are still my main goals, but I loved competing. See how distracting that thought is?

it would be atleast a 9 month recovery after surgery before I could seriously think about it any way. And I like the idea of kata competitions too. Maybe better. But he redefined to me what the 9-12 month recovery means. It isn't till I am up and about and functional on a daily basis. It means till I am ready to start really athleticly using my knee again. Which maybe I never did after the left one was fixed.

we'll see what happens.