Something was not right. I knew something was just wrong somewhere deep inside my knee. Assumptions and imaginations gave up and finally the mind diverted itself to science and technology post my physiotherapist's advice went for an MRI. It was an experience in itself. While filling up the admission form for the MRI a lady beside me was asking the radiologist some questions which amused me.
Lady: Hi, I feel a little claustrophobic usually, so all i want to know is if my entire body is going to get inside the machine.
Radiologist: Yes Maam. Generally 3/4th of the body slides into the giant magnet which makes wobbly sounds and to prevent your headache we provide you free cotton to shut your ears!
Well, what a favor! A pair of cotton for an 8k scan..Interesting.
Soon i was called and fortunately my upper body was completely out and only the part of my body until my knee was sent into the machine which took its own time to run,to shout,to yell and finally i suddenly felt someone waking me up. That's when i realized that i was fast asleep, something which i love.
I had a swollen leg and my dad waiting downstairs for me and a Hanuman temple right across the road. Many years later i went inside the temple and prayed to god (Basically to myself, as i see myself in god) and hoped there wasn't anything complicated. Three hours later i receive a SMS from the diagnostic centre that my scan report is ready and can be accessed by clicking a link. And i did and automatic PDF download took place and i read: Almost complete tear in the anterior cruciate ligament at the femoral attachment. I immediately sent to my Physio and well, he just very bluntly asked me to get in touch with an Ortho and his service is not going to be of any help at the moment.
I met an experienced Ortho: Dr. Praveen at Sagar Jayanagar and well a tall, well spoken and friendly personality who spent close to 90 mins in trying to understand the cause and symptoms. It was a complicated case not because of the tear, but because i was able to play like how any other player of level does! And i am surely not an amateur, i am a player turned Coach! None of peers and students felt a difference in the level of my game and wondered if anything is wrong at all??!! But i knew there was something wrong somewhere. All said and done, finally Dr. Praveen advised me to push myself and play regularly and continue playing and asked me to report to him if i felt anything fundamentally abnormal as he followed an extremely noninvasive approach.
Played for close to a month and a half with loads and loads of reading upon the net and videos on youtube and finally felt if something is physically bothering me i must just attend to it and not neglect. I met the doc and he said well MRI could at times exaggerate so advised for an arthroscopy first and then decide then and there based on the level damage if to go for a reconstruction or not which sounded very practical to me. And the day arrived when i got myself admitted and the sisters in the hospital gave me this so called patient's uniform which looked really bad and looked like an attempt to expose my body and skin! I refused and then comes a kinked lipped sister in a typical Kerala accent says : Sir, kindly do not break the hospital protocol. Request you to co-operate!
I had no other choice left, and followed the rule!
Morning at 5 the ward boy wakes me up and dresses me up in a different attire and asks me to lie down in the stretcher and i tried explaining that i am fine and can walk upto the operation theatre! He refused and finally the hospital was successful in making me feel like a patient already!
The team of doctors waited like butchers and also like gods! That was a paradox.Gods because the were waiting to cure my ailment and butchers because all said and done they are going to make me go under the knife!
I got to watch the entire surgery as it was spinal anesthesia and due to the extensive preoperative research, i could follow everything that the doctor was up to. The entire process lasted for about 90 mins and was transferred back to the ward.
The doc meet me at the ward the next day and tell me not to play for the next three months,not to ride/drive for the next one month and many other conditions apply. Sob!
I shall be penning down the entire recovery status and also experiences associated with this dreadful sports injury consequently.
Adios folks!
Lady: Hi, I feel a little claustrophobic usually, so all i want to know is if my entire body is going to get inside the machine.
Radiologist: Yes Maam. Generally 3/4th of the body slides into the giant magnet which makes wobbly sounds and to prevent your headache we provide you free cotton to shut your ears!
Well, what a favor! A pair of cotton for an 8k scan..Interesting.
Soon i was called and fortunately my upper body was completely out and only the part of my body until my knee was sent into the machine which took its own time to run,to shout,to yell and finally i suddenly felt someone waking me up. That's when i realized that i was fast asleep, something which i love.
I had a swollen leg and my dad waiting downstairs for me and a Hanuman temple right across the road. Many years later i went inside the temple and prayed to god (Basically to myself, as i see myself in god) and hoped there wasn't anything complicated. Three hours later i receive a SMS from the diagnostic centre that my scan report is ready and can be accessed by clicking a link. And i did and automatic PDF download took place and i read: Almost complete tear in the anterior cruciate ligament at the femoral attachment. I immediately sent to my Physio and well, he just very bluntly asked me to get in touch with an Ortho and his service is not going to be of any help at the moment.
I met an experienced Ortho: Dr. Praveen at Sagar Jayanagar and well a tall, well spoken and friendly personality who spent close to 90 mins in trying to understand the cause and symptoms. It was a complicated case not because of the tear, but because i was able to play like how any other player of level does! And i am surely not an amateur, i am a player turned Coach! None of peers and students felt a difference in the level of my game and wondered if anything is wrong at all??!! But i knew there was something wrong somewhere. All said and done, finally Dr. Praveen advised me to push myself and play regularly and continue playing and asked me to report to him if i felt anything fundamentally abnormal as he followed an extremely noninvasive approach.
Played for close to a month and a half with loads and loads of reading upon the net and videos on youtube and finally felt if something is physically bothering me i must just attend to it and not neglect. I met the doc and he said well MRI could at times exaggerate so advised for an arthroscopy first and then decide then and there based on the level damage if to go for a reconstruction or not which sounded very practical to me. And the day arrived when i got myself admitted and the sisters in the hospital gave me this so called patient's uniform which looked really bad and looked like an attempt to expose my body and skin! I refused and then comes a kinked lipped sister in a typical Kerala accent says : Sir, kindly do not break the hospital protocol. Request you to co-operate!
I had no other choice left, and followed the rule!
Morning at 5 the ward boy wakes me up and dresses me up in a different attire and asks me to lie down in the stretcher and i tried explaining that i am fine and can walk upto the operation theatre! He refused and finally the hospital was successful in making me feel like a patient already!
The team of doctors waited like butchers and also like gods! That was a paradox.Gods because the were waiting to cure my ailment and butchers because all said and done they are going to make me go under the knife!
I got to watch the entire surgery as it was spinal anesthesia and due to the extensive preoperative research, i could follow everything that the doctor was up to. The entire process lasted for about 90 mins and was transferred back to the ward.
The doc meet me at the ward the next day and tell me not to play for the next three months,not to ride/drive for the next one month and many other conditions apply. Sob!
I shall be penning down the entire recovery status and also experiences associated with this dreadful sports injury consequently.
Adios folks!
