Okay, so here's what you are looking at in the picture below (the most obvious injuries):
- Femur up top (thigh bone, the human body's largest bone) and tibia (shin bone) beneath it.
- See how the femur is slanting to the right (my body's left lateral side)? Well, it's supposed to be straight up and down.
- Look at my tibia. Your right (my left side of body) is crushed. The femur has sunken into this crushed space of the tibial plateau. Crushed from the compression fracture. Pretty sick!
What is a little bit harder to see is the medial (your left) side of the tibial plateau: the flared top part of the tibia that meets the femur/knee joint, is also fractured. Nearly split off from the shaft. The fibula, which is the smaller bone behind the shin, connects to the tibia at the top lateral side (the crushed side). Because of the crushing fracture, the fibula broke too. Oopsie! There's a fracture in the shaft of the tibia, lower down, not visible here. The medial meniscus tore (was cut and sewn), and the ACL, still intact, took a chunk of bone and split right off of the knee joint.
Anyhow, I'm keeping the faith. I'm 31 years old. I've got a plate and 6 screws in my left leg. Nothing like this has ever happened to me before. This accident happened on August 26, 2011 while riding my bike going less than 10 mph, doing nothing fancy, just taking a turn I've taken a dozen times three blocks from my home. Freaky things happen! Life happens. I'll make a 150% recovery because I plan on being in bad ass shape after this "recovery" is behind me.
That is all.
That is all.
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