and no, i'm not talking about any contemporary art movement, i'm talking about my right knee...
sooo all the way back in 1990 or 1991 (god it's so long ago, who the fuck remembers back that far) i had my right knee reconstructed, after a very silly end of year episode (read as I surfed down some stairs on a boogee board, and when i successfully reached the bottom in one piece, jumped in the air to celebrate, only to fall down with my right knee stuck underneath me)...yep, i was drunk, very very very drunk....
turns out this sort of sporting feat is not so good for the ACL (anterior cruciate ligament for those of you who aren't medically versed)...go figure! sooo after 14 months or so i finally succumbed and went under the knife not willingly i might add, but with the threat of 'if you don't have it reconstructed by the time you're 40 you might not be able to walk'...I now believe this to be utter crap, but hey, i was 20ish and impressionable...
so i had said ACL reconstruction and pretty much ever since that time my knee has acted as a barometer...turns out that i know (even before the Bureau of Metereology sometimes) when it's gonna rain, and that is because it aches...not great
so today, imagine my surprise when i go for my walk/run and it's bloody sore - in fact i don't remember it being this sore for ages, and as i'm limping around my usual 'track' it's really bugging me...so i figure 'what the hell, a run couldn't make it worse'...and i was right!
so how is it possible that walking hurts more than running? is this not a strange twist of irony for the girl who hates running (well, less so now that i am doing in more often)....
bizarre! so how can my post reconstruction knee hurt less when i'm running than i do when i'm walking?
any takers?
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