I am still alive

Well family and friends I am still alive despite my disappearance on my blog posting. On Dec 30th I went to a wonderful orthopedic practice here in Jackson called Teton Orthopedics and they have been nothing but wonderful. Turns out I only have a partial tear of my MCL (learn more about knee ligaments here) which means that I will recover very quickly. As far as knee injuries go the MCL is a good one (looking on the positive side here, haha) because unlike the ACL it has its own blood supply and can repair on its own without surgery. This means that on January 13th I am clear to try skiing again. Although, the first day I will only be on the bunny slope, it will be nice to be out there again. The really nice part is that everyone at work is super supportive and they are all going to come out there with me and support me. I really enjoy the people I work with and they have been nothing but amazing. Today I went back to my doctor to get fitted with a new brace because I realized on Thursday that my brace had gotten really big since my knee is no longer so swollen so the brace wasn't supporting at all. My brace was also too long and was down into my ski boot which simply wouldn't do. They were really nice about it and just traded out my brace for a new smaller size. Here is the brace I have been wearing, it is meant for the most support in the highest impact situations. I guess it ought to be since it is a $700 brace.

All braced up and ready to go.

So this brace I have the joy of wearing 24/7 until the end of January, then for the month of February I will wear it any time I am out of bed, for March any time I leave the house, and beyond April any time I am doing any type of weight bearing sports until December 30th 2009.

I am really looking forward to Tuesday though, especially since all of my roommates (Kerry, Mike, Caroline and Melanie) all went skiing today. It sucked to see them all leaving, but it has been nice to have some time to bum around the house and do some napping which I am in desperate need of. Soon Caroline, Melanie and Els (our other house guest) will be moving into their apartment and we will go back to having just three of us here in the house, that is until the next visitors arrive, haha. I guess that is the plague of living in a ski town. Over the past week there have also been a bunch of UVM folks in town because the annual UVM Ski and Snowboard trip was here. Some of my friends were in town so I spent a fair amount of time visiting with them. Tomorrow I am thinking about driving to Idaho Falls, ID which is about 2 hours away. Idaho Falls is the nearest city that has normal chain stores and the like. Here in Jackson we only have one store that sells yarn and they run about $8 for a small ball of yarn, so being poor we have to drive to Idaho to buy some yarn we can afford, thank god gas is only $1.61. Well that is all for now, I will try and do a better job keeping this updated, but my apologies I tend to slack on this.