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So three weeks ago I was playing basketball on Saturday morning, and in the second game, about halfway through, I felt a sharp pain in my left knee as I was running down the court. If finished off that game and played one more even though I wasn't running to well. Then on Sunday, I hiked up the Avenues Twin Peaks and my knee was pretty sore when I got back home. On Monday, I could hardly walk at all. And have had trouble walking since. So these last three weeks I have been taking it easy and resting the knee to see if it would start feeling better. Towards the end of the first week, without any improvement, I called and made an appointment with an orthopedic knee specialist. It's actually the same doctor who did surgery on my left knee 23 years ago after I tore my ACL and shredded my meniscus. My appointment is Monday morning, so I decided to give Van Cott a go and see if I could fire up the knee for my appointment. The knee does feel slightly better than it did three weeks ago, so I put on an old knee brace and went to test it out.
All fired up and ready to go - Not!
Typical wildflowers blooming this time of year in the foothills around Salt Lake. Common storksbill
Some desert alyssum
And some spring parsley
Come on old knee, you've got this. Summit of Van Cott above
Dried out aster
Dried up wand mullein
Old trail goes through the scrub oak, so you know which way I went
Trail runner down in Dry Canyon
Only three weeks and I am out of shape.
More aster
A fly
A deer track
Black Mountain
A four-legged friend greeted me at the top
View up Red Butte Canyon
Descending into Red Butte Canyon
Dried up mules ear - my favorite shot of the hike
Red Butte
Swirl of oak leaves
Not sure what this is
Red Butte Creek
Reaching the southern trailhead for Van Cott
Squirrel
Who notified you about my knee? Life Flight on the way to the University Hospital.
Magpie
And a robin
Back at the Sube. Got back just in time as it started spitting rain as a cold front moved in.
The workhorse for the hike - Canon EOS 90D
When I returned home, the left knee was pretty sore, and I'm sure will get sorer when the vitamin I wears off. Hopefully they can inject some Shoe Goo into the knee on Monday for some retread, or maybe some helium so that there is a high pitched pop instead of the low level painful pop I am now experiencing. I guess the old knee hasn't done so bad being without a meniscus for 23 years.
The End.
All fired up and ready to go - Not!
Typical wildflowers blooming this time of year in the foothills around Salt Lake. Common storksbill
Some desert alyssum
And some spring parsley
Come on old knee, you've got this.
Summit of Van Cott aboveDried out aster
Dried up wand mullein
Old trail goes through the scrub oak, so you know which way I went
Trail runner down in Dry Canyon
Only three weeks and I am out of shape.
More aster
A fly
A deer track
Black Mountain
A four-legged friend greeted me at the top
View up Red Butte Canyon
Descending into Red Butte Canyon
Dried up mules ear - my favorite shot of the hike
Red Butte
Swirl of oak leaves
Not sure what this is
Red Butte Creek
Reaching the southern trailhead for Van Cott
Squirrel
Who notified you about my knee?
Life Flight on the way to the University Hospital.Magpie
And a robin
Back at the Sube. Got back just in time as it started spitting rain as a cold front moved in.
The workhorse for the hike - Canon EOS 90D
When I returned home, the left knee was pretty sore, and I'm sure will get sorer when the vitamin I wears off. Hopefully they can inject some Shoe Goo into the knee on Monday for some retread, or maybe some helium so that there is a high pitched pop instead of the low level painful pop I am now experiencing.
I guess the old knee hasn't done so bad being without a meniscus for 23 years.The End.
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