- Weight: 78.9kg (So guess my diet is working for now)
- Training location: Malden Gym
Amituofo!
The good news is that he agrees with me on both points, he does think that if I can move pain free that I should do it, he also did some test to see if I may stand up on 2 legs (which would enable me to do some exercise again) and thats OK. Jey!
He also agrees on the other point :(, he did a number of pressure/torque/bending tests on my knee and I tested positive for all meniscus damage tests... but negative on some ligament tests. So he is quite sure that my meniscus was damaged.
Most likely the medial ligament also took some minor damage as a consequence.
The bad news is that he is quite confident that it will not heal by itself and the it is quite likely I have to undergo surgery to have it fixed (he explained me that only a very small part of the meniscus, the part which is connected to the ligaments, has blood flow and is able to recover minor damage. The rest of the meniscus has no blood flow and is also not capable of recovery).
He will send my local doctor a note with his findings, hoping that this can speed up referral to a orthopedic specialist.
Luckily recovery time from such a surgery is relatively short (6 weeks). Now I just hope that it can be done soon, and I will not be on some waiting list. More news on that as soon I as I visit my local doctor again (Thursday, but will call on Monday to check if we can speed up things).
Now... more fun news. I decided I didn't want to spend another evening lying down. So I 'apped´ Sam to ask if he was willing to pick me up for training (since I cannot drive now).
So I went to training, which was quite a laugh, showing up on Kung Fu training on supports (krukken, for the dutch people reading this). I couldn't do too much, but I did part of the warm-up and stretches, then did some Qi Gong. I did bench presses instead of push ups, (literally, there were no weight so I used the gym benches as weight :) ) did sit ups, and afterwards I tried if I could do push ups without locking my knee, and that also worked out. I even worked up some sweat!!! Of course I was not able to do Tao Lu (forms) now. So the rest of the training I spend with some old school training. Practicing 'feeling' the jian (straight sword). For those who do not know shaolin martial arts (or Shaolin Wu Shu). Jian is a very graceful weapon, and it is one of the harder weapons to master since you really have to feel the sword as extension of your body. So it takes lots and lots of training to really feel what the sword is doing and to steer it as extension of the body. So I took one exercise from a traditional Yang style Tai Chi sword style book I own and practiced that for the rest of the training. (applying pressure on the staff with the sword while you turn it around the staff... without loosing connection to the staff, sounds a lot easier than it is. Of course some weights on the arms to simultaneously train the shoulders):
For now I wish you a good night!
Amituofo!
