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Control Freaks (On Their Knees)

by Megan M. on December 12, 2009 · 3 comments (Blog) |

It sounds like reverse productivity porn, but actually it’s more literal than you’re expecting. Unless you know about my knee injury, of course, in which case you’re either cackling in amusement or groaning in pain. I’ll take either, it’s all good. ;}

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Tagged as: control, knees, learning, mistakes

  • http://wordswillsaveme.wordpress.com Teresa Basich

    Funny how injuries can teach us a lot about how much we can't control our lives. I tore the cartilage that attaches my abdominal wall to my rib cage (ow) about 3 months ago and, like you, had no real serious signs anything was wrong. Then I woke up one night (about a week after what I believe to be the moment that caused the injury) and noticed it hurt really bad to lie on my right side, there was this nasty pressure, and…yeah, something was definitely wrong.

    It does take over your life, the constant care and the pain that go with an injury, but I completely agree these sorts of situations teach you there's really only so much you can do to make sure it doesn't happen again. That's life, right? We do the best we can with what we've got (energy, training, abilities, commitment, etc.) and that's all we can do! You'll get better, you'll get back to crossfit when you're ready (I LOVE CROSSFIT…though I haven't done it in awhile), and you'll be much more attentive to the physical signals your body gives you to stop. Same goes for the bigger picture of Life, too.

    YAY LIFE LESSONS!

    I <3 your video blogs, Megan! Hope your knee works its way back to good nice and soon. :)

    -T
    @TransitionalTee

  • http://twitter.com/mzumtaylor Megan Taylor

    When you first started describing your injury, I thought, 'Ooh, I know what that is!' because it sounds an awful lot like hyper-extension, which I have done to BOTH my knees. More than once. (Ouch.) Don't know about the tendon snapping thing, though.

    When it was the worst for me, I was playing Ultimate Frisbee and I ran at a guy to beat him to the frisbee and I was told that, at a distance, it looked like he tripped me, but in reality, he never touched me. I got within about a foot of him, and my knee sort of… popped, and I crumpled. Boom, down. And it swole (swoll?) to the size of a softball and was just ugly, and it hurt, and I could barely walk.

    To this day I have to be careful about how I position my knee when I've got something on top of it (the covers, my husband, whatever) because if I move it the wrong way it'll hurt like a bitch.

    Don't know much about Airrosti (although the website I found on it was fascinating), but one of the things that really helped me was Rolfing (http://www.rolf.org/), which is something my mom and step-dad are certified in, and it's really great.

    But hopefully things do continue to get better for you (and NY didn't strain it too much), and very cool life lesson that you arrived to at the end.

  • http://twitter.com/mzumtaylor Megan Taylor

    When you first started describing your injury, I thought, 'Ooh, I know what that is!' because it sounds an awful lot like hyper-extension, which I have done to BOTH my knees. More than once. (Ouch.) Don't know about the tendon snapping thing, though.

    When it was the worst for me, I was playing Ultimate Frisbee and I ran at a guy to beat him to the frisbee and I was told that, at a distance, it looked like he tripped me, but in reality, he never touched me. I got within about a foot of him, and my knee sort of… popped, and I crumpled. Boom, down. And it swole (swoll?) to the size of a softball and was just ugly, and it hurt, and I could barely walk.

    To this day I have to be careful about how I position my knee when I've got something on top of it (the covers, my husband, whatever) because if I move it the wrong way it'll hurt like a bitch.

    Don't know much about Airrosti (although the website I found on it was fascinating), but one of the things that really helped me was Rolfing (http://www.rolf.org/), which is something my mom and step-dad are certified in, and it's really great.

    But hopefully things do continue to get better for you (and NY didn't strain it too much), and very cool life lesson that you arrived to at the end.

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