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Slippery moss
May. 22nd, 2021 01:15 pmOn Monday I slipped on a mossy step and fell and skinned my right knee. It is healing well, but I still don't want to kneel on it.
I injured my left knee in high school playing soccer and didn't have PT to stop it from giving way until ~ten years later-- during which, they discouraged me from putting my weight on just that knee So ever since 2002, if I needed to go down on one knee or get up on a knee to rise, I did that on my right knee.
After I fell, I sat up and literally wondered how I was going to get up to standing. I eventually used both hands and kind of spider walked up onto my feet without touching either knee to the ground.
Just now, I was sitting on a nice plush carpet sorting laundry, and thought to myself, "I bet you can kneel on your left knee here to get up." So I did. And of course, it was fine. I have been strengthening it regularly for almost 20 years, and it has not given way once since I started that PT regimen.
But it was so hard, mentally, to switch to the left side for that!
I injured my left knee in high school playing soccer and didn't have PT to stop it from giving way until ~ten years later-- during which, they discouraged me from putting my weight on just that knee So ever since 2002, if I needed to go down on one knee or get up on a knee to rise, I did that on my right knee.
After I fell, I sat up and literally wondered how I was going to get up to standing. I eventually used both hands and kind of spider walked up onto my feet without touching either knee to the ground.
Just now, I was sitting on a nice plush carpet sorting laundry, and thought to myself, "I bet you can kneel on your left knee here to get up." So I did. And of course, it was fine. I have been strengthening it regularly for almost 20 years, and it has not given way once since I started that PT regimen.
But it was so hard, mentally, to switch to the left side for that!
