It’s weird how some of the seemingly trivial things in life can often evolve into something bigger. When I first started healing from the accident my leg was an absolute mess. I have metal placed in it from top to bottom and some of it continues to be a painful hindrance to this day. The lower part of my leg has an unexplained scar on the shin area that resembles a scrape or a burn, but I’ve never known the actual cause and it took several months to heal. Underneath the skin lies a strip of metal that is screwed into my tibia roughly half way down the shin. There are longer screws placed horizontally across my knee that help to keep it together after having it shattered by the accident. Most of my leg was swollen when I came home from the hospital, but my knee was particularly large and looked more like a continuation of my thigh. There is still a degree of swelling to this day on my knee and shin, but it gets noticeably worse as a day grows longer.
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My knee and shin swollen to about
2 ½ times the normal size. |
The initial months passed after being released from the hospital and I was eventually given permission by my orthopedic surgeon to stop wearing a leg brace that covered my leg from the very top at the hip down to my ankle. This was a great blessing because it was not a comfortable fashion accessory and attempting to sleep with it on my leg was very difficult and cumbersome. Within time the more severe swelling eventually began to subside (the fact that I have always had somewhat skinny legs didn’t help with the look). One day I sat down at the dinner table while wearing a pair of jeans, and bending my leg after I sat revealed a more pronounced bump at the knee. It was the first time since the accident that I could see anything that even resembled a rounded and defined knee through the denim. It didn’t look like a normal knee, but it was there. I told my wife to look at my knee and we rejoiced as though I had solved a Rubik’s Cube blindfolded. It was such a simple thing that turned into a point of triumph, but then again trivial and weird things are sometimes meant to be celebrated.
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