{"id":956,"date":"2007-10-09T15:25:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T22:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/the-real-culprit"},"modified":"2007-10-09T15:25:20","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T22:25:20","slug":"the-real-culprit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/the-real-culprit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Culprit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago I <a href=\"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/the-culprit\">pointedly blamed<\/a> the LCL for all my troubles, and mentioned that the good news was that the LCL was not the ACL.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it turns out that while the LCL is still not the ACL, the ACL is, in fact, the ACL. This is all a roundabout way of saying that my ACL and my LCL are both torn, as in all the way through and not-going-to-heal-on-their-own. Along with a bunch of bone contusions (or bruising, but contusion sounds more appropriate for this situation), it means that my right knee is basically in just about the worst shape possible, short of any bones breaking, which apparently doesn&#8217;t happen to me, ever.<\/p>\n<p>(*Knock on wood.)<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I get to call a surgeon to (presumably) schedule surgery on my knee. Recovery afterwards is supposed to be about 6 months to full strength, which is a shorter time frame than I expected to hear &#8212; but maybe the arthroscopic surgery is just that good these days? The time line I received was as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1 month to biking<br \/>\n2-3 months to running in a straight line<br \/>\n6 months to full recovery, including ultimate again<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a heck of a lot better than the 6-12 months for partial and probably incomplete recovery that I was expecting to hear. Was this sugarcoated or are my chances really this good? I guess time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago I pointedly blamed the LCL for all my troubles, and mentioned that the good news was that the LCL was not the ACL. Well, it turns out that while the LCL is still not the ACL, the ACL is, in fact, the ACL. This is all a roundabout way of saying that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}