1- Where it all began
I was 12 when it happened. When my world got dropped again. Im a multi sport athlete lacrosse in the spring, volleyball in the fall, club volleyball in the winter, and 2025 was my first year wrestling folk style wrestling. I had a good 2-3 knee injuries that year.
My first big wrestling tournament I get hurt. I sprained my MCL in my knee. The athletic trainer said to go easy for a week or 2. The next week at practice I decided I would actually practice for teal and see how it felt. It was fine all practice. We usually do some conditioning at the end of practice. Instead of doing our normal conditioning my coach said we were going to go play 3on3 basketball in the gym. I was playing defense. (i used to play basketball when i was younger) I tried to pivot. I stepped out with my right leg.
I don’t know what happened. But all of the sudden I heard and felt a crack. Then i was on the floor crying because of the pain going through my right knee/leg. I couldn’t move for at least 2 full minutes. Untill my coach told me i had to get up off the floor. So the person I was closest with at the time helped me get up and walk back to the wrestling room. Practiced ended after that happened so I got picked up.
And I told my mom I wanted to go to the docter/ER. So she took me to the place I wanted to go. Got X-rays, they were fine, but they wanted me to get an MRI. A few weeks later I got one.
They told me that I dislocated my knee cap and in that process I tore a small piece of cartilage and scraped a piece of bone. I was probaly going to need surgery is what the first doctor I saw said when they looked at the MRI. But he didn’t know enough about it and he said that it’s to complicated for him to do on a growing 12 yr old athlete to do the surgery, so they sent us to a specialist.
The specialist wanted to do more x rays, same thing he said they looked good. And based of this other scan they did, because of genetics im nocked kneed. They dont line up with the rest of my body like it’s supposed to be. And with everything else im going to need a major reconstructive knee surgery.
Like recovery time would be 9-12 months. But to figure out what kind of surgery he’s going to do I need to get a Cat Scan or a CT Scan ( it’s the same thing). And while of this is going on I can’t play any sports at all right now and I won’t be able to until next year.
I was going to be the JV girls lacrosse goalie this year as a 7th grader. I would have been 1 of the girls in my grade that were going to be on JV. The coach told me at one my games that he was impressed with my goalie skills for only being in 7th grade. I worked every day I got the chance to practice goalie. And now that’s not going to happen anytime soon.2
