Tyler Redd's ACL Injury
by Tyler Redd
(Dallas, Georgia United States)
I play linebacker for the East Paulding High School in Dallas, Georgia. It was the first football game of the year when i had the nightmare of every athlete. I worked my but off for three years, gained fifty pounds, worked out everyday passionately to gain a starting spot. After those three years of hard work i came out the strongest pound for pound on the team, people respected and feared me it felt good. I got the starting spot and i enjoyed it for sixteen minutes into the game. I guess it wasn't meant to be i just planted my foot in the ground no one touched me. It didn't hurt it just buckled on me. I tried to walk off the field and made it about four steps before it folded under me . I hade a grade two mcl tear and a full acl tear. I have yet to have surgery it isn't for another three weeks. The doctors tell me i am done with football and it will take six months to recover but the truth is i feel no pain and can put full weight on it, jog, I can bend it plenty past 90 degrees with no pain and straighten it completly locked out, jump ( abnormally but still) and bike. There is almost no swelling anymore (it was the size of a softball) i have probably 70% of my normal quad strength and my knee looks almost normal. I feel like there is nothing wrong except that i am not playing football. It suck and isn't fair. I am one of the few that really love the game on the team. I have pre op in two weeks and maybe they will say they were wrong even though i could even see that it was torn on the MRI. Maybe God will see fit to let me heal and be a tool to help spread his word through telling this whole story. That is what i pray for everyday. I still support my team but wish with everything i got that i can get back out there before the season is over. Thank you it helps to let some of this out
