Matt update

Matt injured his knee last week on a friend's 4 wheeler. Him and his buddies went out for the day to play. At some point Matt went to take a hard left and the 4 wheeler was going to flip. Matt decided to stick his leg out to keep it from flipping instead of just rolling off and letting it go. Needless to say this was not the smarter of the two options. Immediately upon doing this he heard two loud pops from his knee and felt extreme pain. He went to the ER where they said that he had sprained his knee. They placed him in a knee immobilizer and referred him to an orthopedic doctor. While waiting for Tricare to approve the referral his primary doctor ordered an MRI. We got the results yesterday which shows he has a complete tear of his ACL, a cyst from the ACL rupture, bone bruises from the injury and swelling. This will require surgery to repair. I spoke to one of the doctors back in NC and he said that they have to wait 4-6 weeks before surgery can be done for all the swelling to resolve. In the meantime he has to be extremely careful on it, continue the knee immobilizer and only partial weightbearing on that side. Tricare has just approved today for him to go see the orthopedic doctor here.
We are an interesting pair at the moment with neither one of us able to get around very well. So the next few weeks should interesting to say the least.