Post-op

Hey everybody! I know I haven't really written in a while, but I've been a little out of commission lately. I finally had my surgery and I'll tell ya what, it was a doozy.

After 3 weeks of waiting, we finally were able to go in on Monday, June 29th, to have the surgery. The surgery was pretty brutal and left me pretty shaken up afterwards. So the original diagnosis was that I had torn both my ACL and my meniscus playing soccer, right? Well, when they went in to fix everything up, they discovered something a little different. Apparently the meniscus has been torn for a few years now, waaay before I messed it up in soccer. During the operation, the doctors decided that my meniscus was way too destroyed from all those years of stress to be able to salvage. So they ended up almost completely removing my meniscus. As for my ACL, They removed the old torn ACL and took out a piece of my patellar tendon to replace it with.

So results of the operation: I have no more meniscus, and a bran-new, stronger than ever, ACL. I was couch-bound for two whole weeks with nothing to do but watch TV and go crazy. After all that time of doing nothing, my body (especially my leg) completely atrophied and got very weak. But here's the good news, I started physical therapy today!! It feels so good to be back up doing PT and exercising all of my weakened joints and muscles.

This whole experience has definitely been one for the books. Surgery was rough, and recuperation has been even worse. It's hard, but I definitely feel like I'm being put through the refiner's fire. I hope I'll come out of this stronger than ever, that's the goal. Just can't wait to get back to 100% ability and get back out to the mission that I started. I know that the Savior will be with me every step of the way. Thank you all so much for all of your support, good thoughts, and prayers. 

Keep On Keepin' On...

~ Sam

 

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