Monday night I was out in the snow and ended up falling on the sidewalk. I tried to get up a few times but my right leg was on the ice with water. I'd crawl a ways and try again but had the same problem. The dog went in with out me so the wife came out looking for me. She brought a walking stick and I was finally able to crawl far enough around to mostly get off the ice and get up. Good thing I had the walking stick because I was really struggling to walk on my right leg, very painful on the old knee. Ended up going to bed after using the walking stick and a step ladder to balance myself. Next morning I couldn't put any weight on my knee. Still using the walking stick and step ladder but the weather was a mess and didn't want the wife to head out and get stuck in the snow or slip on some ice. Finally that night a friend brought over some crutches. Finally decided it was time to go see a dr yesterday. Went to the DOC clinic said I had damaged my miniscus. Wasn't sure how bad it was damaged but he said sometimes they heal, on their own, so I'm going to stay in for a couple of weeks and hope it get's better. I have an appointment in two weeks if things aren't better I'll go for an MRI. It can certainly be painful getting older. If you would think about me during prayer time I would appreciate it. I don't need this dragging on for a few months. Thanks.
Gotta Bad Wheel...UPDATE
- Thread starter Bear Paw Jack
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You know I'm thinking about you. I let WAYNO know also. Don't do anything crazy! Torn miniscus is nothing to mess with. I have had the same injury and still feel the effects 20 years later. Take care! Will send up a prayer for a positive recovery.
Dave
Dave
Jimbo357mag
Hawkeye
Prayers for a quick recovery. Watch out for that ICE, whatever that is. I have heard of quite a few people that have had accidents and broken legs because of this latest freeze around the country. 
jlmtr6
Bearcat
Polar Bear, you need to hibernate till April first. Wake up, find out who won the super bowl, do your taxes, then carefully exercise the knee. We'll be thinking of you and hoping for the best. Good luck.
Did the doctor make the appointment for Groundhog Day? :shock:
Did the doctor make the appointment for Groundhog Day? :shock:
See, this is why I don't live where it snows. :wink:
Get better soon Bear Paw.
Get better soon Bear Paw.
Sorry to hear this, Marlin 
I hope you can get it all squared away with rest and not surgery. Prayers are a given...
I hope you can get it all squared away with rest and not surgery. Prayers are a given...powder smoke
Hawkeye
Drive way is a sheet of ice hard packed snow than rain and cold.
Take care BPJ I'll add you to my prayers. ps
Take care BPJ I'll add you to my prayers. ps
rugerjunkie
Hunter
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Sorry to hear that , and get well soon wishes from me.
I was much younger when I did that to my knee. Was on crutches for a couple of months and it healed itself. I would not want to go through that again! A good brace that goes from mid calf to mid thigh might help you out here...and don't walk on it if you don't absolutely have to!
I was much younger when I did that to my knee. Was on crutches for a couple of months and it healed itself. I would not want to go through that again! A good brace that goes from mid calf to mid thigh might help you out here...and don't walk on it if you don't absolutely have to!
CGDustDevil
Buckeye
Take it easy BPJ! You'll be in our prayers.
Best regards, Pete
Best regards, Pete
welder
Buckeye
Yep BPJ, got you on my list. My brother tore his miniscus a few years ago and has had trouble ever since. Most recently after his new rescue dog came in at a high rate of speed and caught him on the side of his leg. He hit the ground, and hobbled around for several days.
Hope you stay in and get better.
Hope you stay in and get better.
akbluz
Blackhawk
Hey ol' Pard,
Sorry to hear you took a tumble. Stay off the leg and I hope you get some good news on your next Dr. visit. Us old guys don't bounce too good anymore.
I'll be praying for your speedy recovery.
Steve
Sorry to hear you took a tumble. Stay off the leg and I hope you get some good news on your next Dr. visit. Us old guys don't bounce too good anymore.
I'll be praying for your speedy recovery.
Steve
exavid
Hunter
Prayers for you from Oregon. I don't know how old you are BP, I'm 74 and find it darn hard to get up off solid ground. I slipped on ice last week but went down on a small snow berm so there wasn't any damage to my two bad knees. Must have been comical if anyone had seen me trying to get back up. Finally crawled over to a down spout and climbed up that. Take care, we don't bounce as well as we used to.
Take it easy. Try to let it heal on its own. It'd be easy to hurt further right now while it's inflamed. And then everything starts getting cockeyed and other parts start compensating.
8 knee surgeries and a replacement. I know what makes knees hurt. And I am grimacing for you.
Get well my Friend.
WAYNO.
8 knee surgeries and a replacement. I know what makes knees hurt. And I am grimacing for you.
Get well my Friend.
WAYNO.
I tore my right meniscus years ago playing soccer with my oldest son's Cub scouts. My orthopedic surgeon suggested a round of physical therapy first to strengthen the knee. He felt that worse case was that I would still need meniscus repair but I would have stronger muscle support beforehand. Best case would be not needing surgery. So I worked hard on my PT. It really hurt but it improved enough to avoid surgery. I continued to do the exercises for many years here and there, sometimes before going to sleep or just waking up. Or simply while watching TV. It has greatly improved. They don't really heal but the sharp edges of the year can wear down and then you don't have much discomfort. That is really what most meniscus repairs are anyway, just a shaping and smoothing of the cartledge. I send my prayer for you. I slipped on ice and went down on concrete steps a!most a month ago, breaking bones. Still healing here too. Good luck to you.
Man, Marlin, that wasn't fun! I hurt just thinking about it. Prayers sent. Get well fast, ya hear?
gramps
gramps
Sorry to hear about your misfortune. I walked around on sticks for weeks after doing basically the same thing. Don't be too anxious to drop them.
graygun
Hunter
Get a new bearing to go with the new wheel. :lol:
May God help you heal.
May God help you heal.
wizofwas
Buckeye
BPJ, prayers sent for a quick recovery from Fla.
protoolman
Service-Sixer
Prayers sent. Maybe get some reloading done while you're moving a bit slow.
Colonialgirl
Hawkeye
NOT FUN !!
I was reffing an U-16 soccer match and while running down the pitch with the play I took a step and heard a very DISTINCT SNAP in the right knee, the next step on that leg was pure PAIN. The play went off the end of the pitch and I finally got my asst ref off the line and out to see what I wanted; Thank God it was U-16's a couple of them helped me over to the sidelines. A coach handed me an ice pack and a bit later I was able to make it to the hospital ER where they xrayed and put on a knee brace. I drove down to Ft Myers where I was working and on Tuesday made it to an Orthopedic Specialist/Surgeon. Said it "might be" torn Minuscule Cartilage gave me another type knee brace and said NO REFFING for two weeks. Gradually worked back out onto the pitch and wasn't doing too bad including HS matches; THEN Memorial Day rolled around and the Tournament at Lakeland,FL; By Monday I couldn't stand to put weight on the knee, Tuesday, BACK to the Doc and Thursday afternoon repair of the knee ( a piece of the cartilage had worked itself into the joint itself) Monday in for physical therapy (funniest part was this little ramp for stretching the tendons in the back of the knees, LOL, I stood there and they asked, "How does that feel", and I said "Its nothing, because when I ref, I keep my foot FLAT on the ground, the leg straight and touch the ground with my other knee "; They said "OH" and came out with this little wheelie thing, "put your foot here and rock it until you feel the stretch". THAT WORKED !!!! Took another two weeks and I was back out reffing again. The surgeon said they had done the same surgery on a World Cup Soccer player and he was in a match less than a week later. Yeah, now some 23/24 years later I have some arthritis in that knee.
Good luck, hope it heals up; Go BUY a knee brace with an opening for the Patella to keep it centered and to brace the rest of the joint.
I was reffing an U-16 soccer match and while running down the pitch with the play I took a step and heard a very DISTINCT SNAP in the right knee, the next step on that leg was pure PAIN. The play went off the end of the pitch and I finally got my asst ref off the line and out to see what I wanted; Thank God it was U-16's a couple of them helped me over to the sidelines. A coach handed me an ice pack and a bit later I was able to make it to the hospital ER where they xrayed and put on a knee brace. I drove down to Ft Myers where I was working and on Tuesday made it to an Orthopedic Specialist/Surgeon. Said it "might be" torn Minuscule Cartilage gave me another type knee brace and said NO REFFING for two weeks. Gradually worked back out onto the pitch and wasn't doing too bad including HS matches; THEN Memorial Day rolled around and the Tournament at Lakeland,FL; By Monday I couldn't stand to put weight on the knee, Tuesday, BACK to the Doc and Thursday afternoon repair of the knee ( a piece of the cartilage had worked itself into the joint itself) Monday in for physical therapy (funniest part was this little ramp for stretching the tendons in the back of the knees, LOL, I stood there and they asked, "How does that feel", and I said "Its nothing, because when I ref, I keep my foot FLAT on the ground, the leg straight and touch the ground with my other knee "; They said "OH" and came out with this little wheelie thing, "put your foot here and rock it until you feel the stretch". THAT WORKED !!!! Took another two weeks and I was back out reffing again. The surgeon said they had done the same surgery on a World Cup Soccer player and he was in a match less than a week later. Yeah, now some 23/24 years later I have some arthritis in that knee.
Good luck, hope it heals up; Go BUY a knee brace with an opening for the Patella to keep it centered and to brace the rest of the joint.
BucolicBuffalo
Single-Sixer
All the best!
There is an inner and outer pad. Everyone tears them differently it seems. When I tore my right inner pad I stepped in a hole weed-wacking. Did not lock the knee. Doc says, "We can fix it with surgery, 6-10 weeks to heal. Or you can baby it." I did not want to be cut on. So Motrin and a cane for a couple years and it rarely bothers me now. There is no really quick fix.
There is an inner and outer pad. Everyone tears them differently it seems. When I tore my right inner pad I stepped in a hole weed-wacking. Did not lock the knee. Doc says, "We can fix it with surgery, 6-10 weeks to heal. Or you can baby it." I did not want to be cut on. So Motrin and a cane for a couple years and it rarely bothers me now. There is no really quick fix.
In recent years I developed a weakness in the joint to the point that it would collapse suddenly and want to hyper-extend. I had numerous falls because of it. After recent physical therapy and specific workouts aimed at strengthening the legs I have had no trouble. I will get a little ache from time to time, but the joint is strong. All this from a 20 year old injury......
Dave
Dave
Spleenless Dave
Single-Sixer
Hope the leg isn't bad, and you heal up quickly!
Mike Armstrong
Hunter
Sorry for the injury! Hope it heals up soon. ICE is one of the main reasons I moved from one anti-gun state to another. Fell at least once every winter of the 25 that I lived in VT and NYS and always sort of recovered (soft tissue damage doesn't really recover fully by itself after a certain--very young--age). But the damage built up over the years and I kept ignoring it.
Then one glorious winter day in upstate NYS (ten degrees, snow on the ground, and a brisk little wind blowing) while hunting birds, I fell through the ice on a farm pond that was totally covered with snow. Only knew it when my nose hit the top of the ice! Had the water been a foot deeper, that would have been the end....
The next week I was offered a "retirement incentive." The week after that a lawyer sent my wife a notice that she'd inherited a house in CA. California, here we came. Got most of the falling damage surgically repaired. Now I only have to deal with a whole new set of anti-gun laws. The ice and snow stay at a "scenic" distance, and I leave them there.
Then one glorious winter day in upstate NYS (ten degrees, snow on the ground, and a brisk little wind blowing) while hunting birds, I fell through the ice on a farm pond that was totally covered with snow. Only knew it when my nose hit the top of the ice! Had the water been a foot deeper, that would have been the end....
The next week I was offered a "retirement incentive." The week after that a lawyer sent my wife a notice that she'd inherited a house in CA. California, here we came. Got most of the falling damage surgically repaired. Now I only have to deal with a whole new set of anti-gun laws. The ice and snow stay at a "scenic" distance, and I leave them there.
OP
I had an MRI on Monday, today I went in and got the report. I will lay it out.
1. Complex tears of the lateral Meniscus including a large radial tear and extrusion of the body of the meniscus. (It's not only torn, it's torn in a "Y" shape tear which is bad)
2. Medial Meniscus tear. In addition to the above their is an additional tear on the other side.
3. Tricompartmental Chondromalacia including a chondral flap along the weight bearing surface of the lateral femora condyle. The knee has 3 parts and all 3 parts on my knee has arthritis along with an additional tear. This will only get worse.
4. Large knee joint effusion. Not only is their swelling on the knee there is a lot of fluid on the knee.
Anyway they are sending me to a specialist. Basically this guy said that having the knee scoped may or may not help. He's seen both. If I was 75 he would recommend knee replacement. They could also drain the knee and add coligen but this probably won't help a lot but this is the least invasive. I will be seeing a specialist (surgeon) in the next few days to get his input.
I added the way I understand the medical speak. If anyone has any imput or have experience with this I would appreciate it.
1. Complex tears of the lateral Meniscus including a large radial tear and extrusion of the body of the meniscus. (It's not only torn, it's torn in a "Y" shape tear which is bad)
2. Medial Meniscus tear. In addition to the above their is an additional tear on the other side.
3. Tricompartmental Chondromalacia including a chondral flap along the weight bearing surface of the lateral femora condyle. The knee has 3 parts and all 3 parts on my knee has arthritis along with an additional tear. This will only get worse.
4. Large knee joint effusion. Not only is their swelling on the knee there is a lot of fluid on the knee.
Anyway they are sending me to a specialist. Basically this guy said that having the knee scoped may or may not help. He's seen both. If I was 75 he would recommend knee replacement. They could also drain the knee and add coligen but this probably won't help a lot but this is the least invasive. I will be seeing a specialist (surgeon) in the next few days to get his input.
I added the way I understand the medical speak. If anyone has any imput or have experience with this I would appreciate it.
graygun
Hunter
ouch!!
Lots of medical mumbo-jumbo adds up to a bad report. Why not a knee replacement? It's not like you are 29........ Whatever the decision, all the best going forward.
Dave
Dave
Marlin, you're just gonna have to stay inside and play with your Rugers 'til the thaw.
By the way . . . if you go for surgery, have 'em install a couple of lube fittings while they're at it. Should make future maintenance easier.
:wink: :lol: :lol: :wink:
By the way . . . if you go for surgery, have 'em install a couple of lube fittings while they're at it. Should make future maintenance easier.
:wink: :lol: :lol: :wink:
Gad.
It hurt just to read that!
All the best from another knee damage sufferer...
Yours in a common affliction,
Jeff
It hurt just to read that!
All the best from another knee damage sufferer...
Yours in a common affliction,
Jeff
