Pete's ACL - Five Years Since Tear

t's summer 2005 out flying modal airplanes,haven't done it since.
Anyway, I landed the plane on the wrong side of the fence so I decided to climb over a 6 foot fence and the grass on that side was approx. 18 inches high. so I landed in a hole that I didn't see, I could hear crunching sounds as I see my knee going 2 different directions.
After this I drug myself to the car and my wife drove me to the hospital. Took xrays of my leg in ER "don't worry about it, it will be okay" must have been an HMO.
After going home I hop around on crutches a few weeks, walking after slowly regaining some strength in my leg.
6 months later.... getting out of my truck I went down with pain laying there for a few moments I thought the pain would eventually go away.
A year later, at a bar watching a band and my leg gives out and I go crashing down on top of a table. The band stops playing, and everyone is staring.
Fast forward a few years, I have fallen down a few more times and occasional popping sounds in my knee.
December 15, 2009
Putting in a wood floor, as I am in the construction trade. Knee if feeling pretty good until I walk out to get a saw out my front seat. I turn to go back in the house pivoting I drop in pain (i think I turned white) Dr. followed up with a MRI and discovered I had a complete tear in my ACL and a torn meniscus, no more HMO, Its Feb 3, 2010 nothing to eat or drink after midnight as at noon I get ACL reconstruction Finally and I am getting the patella reconstruction surgery.
So my advice is...don't wait 5 years, it wont heal.