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Not being able to skate for the last seven months and wondering if I will ever be able to skate again (doctors are unsure) which has resulted in me coming on this messageboard way too much. Not stoked.
why can't you skate? at least after 7 months you're still thinking in skateboarding, i've got a friend that had a bad knee injury (fell from the top of a halfpipe) and was over a year without skating, at the beggining he really missed it, but he got acostumed to a life without skating, and now that he's ok he hardly skates anymore.
It's pretty crazy. I woke up one day and I couldn't skateboard anymore. You think that could never happen, but that is what happened. I didn't fall or do anything to injure myself, but it turns out that I have a ligament disorder that is really messing up my knees. One morning my knee felt funny and I went out and was just doing flatground tricks in my driveway and my knee gave out. A couple months later, after doing nothing but resting and trying to get better, my other knee got all messed up too. So now both knees are very unstable and when I bend my knees to a certain point you can see my fibula bone pop in and out of place. I have pretty much done everything I can think of to get better and done everything doctors tell me to do, but nothing seems to help. Right now I drive about 5 1/2 hours to Chicago every month to see a doctor that claims to be able to help. The whole situation is so messed up and I never would of thought not being able to skateboard would have such a HUGE impact on my life. Haha, whatever, sorry for writing so much. I tried to condense it.
Oh yeah, I could never do what your friend did. I've never wanted to skate more than I do now.