Memory

Throughout my eighteen years of life, I have had many memorable moments. But one of the most memorable moments I have had is when I had one the worst injuries that could happen to an athlete, the terrible triad to the knee. The terrible triad to the knee is when a person tears their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), medial collateral ligament (MCL), and meniscus. This happened to me when I was 12 years old and playing football in 8th grade. It happened at our second game of the season. It was an away game against a school that was about two hours away. At this game I was starting on both sides of the ball. I was the starting fullback and starting inside linebacker. When the injury happened I was playing fullback. It was the third quarter and we were on our opponents thirty yard line. The coach had just called a play where I had to run the ball.
after the quarterback said hike I got the ball and started running with it. I had already ran about 10 yards before I finally got hit. But when I got hit, I took a hard hit to the knee. As soon as I got hit I heard a loud "pop" and I was in horrible pain. Right as I hit the ground I took off my helmet and started screaming in pain. My coaches immediately ran out to the field to see what had happened. I told my coaches that I had heard my knee pop and that I was in a lot of pain. My coach asked me if I needed to go to the hospital and I told him no so they carried me off the field and I did not return to the game. The very next day I went to the doctor and he had told me that it was just a sprain and that I would be fine in 2 weeks. So I did not do anything physical, besides walk, for 2 weeks. Once the weeks was up, I was playing basketball in my P.E. class at school. I went up for a layup and when I came back down my knee completely went out on me and I fell to the floor. A couple days later I went to see an orthopedic surgeon. He had me get an MRI and that is when he told me that I had torn my ACL, MCL, and my meniscus.