So........A couple of days ago I thought it was a good idea to start our first morning of the roadtrip with a nice morning surf at vic bay near Wilderness together with my bro in crime @tommein.
Yeah...that....didn't turn out as I hoped it would...I just settled in the line up and was waiting for a wave. I had a conversation with one of the surfers next to me, I look up and I'm in the Perfect position for taking the wave. I start paddling and put my board diagonally on the wave so that when I stand up I can make a turn quicker.. Anyway as I am standing up I'm losing my balance and I'm thinking "shit, I really don't want to lose this wave" so I start pressing on the outside of my right foot trying to desperately save myself from falling. My board is slowly turning down the wave and as I am hitting the water my board turns to the opposite way to which I am falling my ankle snaps left with the board and so does the bottom of my leg, my upper leg on the otherhand decided to press forward together with my whole body and i fall to the right...next thing I feel is a large "pop". I hit the water and straight away feel something is wrong with my knee. I'm thinking in shock "shit, it's dislocated" after a couple of seconds which felt like minutes I re-surface above the water. So does my knee!.
I shout out because of what I see and I realize that it is dislocated! I scream and I start waving around to other surfers who come over and see what's wrong but the only reactions I get are "fuck,dude" "how do we get him to the shore " "get him on the board" "dude, get on your board " I look over and see a wave coming (and a rather big one).
There is a guy surfing the wave, he sees me just in time to bail and paddle back. The wave hits me, I let go and brace myself for the pain that's going to hit me again. I get thrown around underwater and pop up to see my knee is still out of its socket. As I'm trying to get back on my board to paddle in another huge wave hits me!!!.
I embrace myself again for the pain and as I'm getting thrown around I get a possible hit by my board on my dislocated knee and can feel a "pop" or "click" again.
I'm too scared to look so instead I scramble for my board, settle on my stomach and start paddling for the shore which is still about 50 to 80 meters away from me! I try to catch some white wash but fail and get tumbler again, right over my board. My knee is fine but I'm in total panic and shock.
I struggle again to get back on my board but this time I managed to get close to the beach where other surfers were waiting for me.
I get to the shallow part of the beach and slowly scramble to my feet I look down to my knee and I can see that my knee popped back into its original position. "Awesome, I can put it down and walk back to the car"..... Yeah not so much!! As I try to stand up on it, I experience excruciating pain up and down my leg and I fall forward right in time for 2 surfers to catch me and help me hop towards the car
This was were it hit me... I realize that I've done something to my knee and it's BAD...
The 2 surfers help me hop to the car and I find my buddy Tom just getting changed at the car and he had no idea what was going on?! I get into the car and thank the 2 surfers for their help. Tom gets in the car and starts the 15 min drive back to the hostel.
We get to the hostel, its 8:30 am and I ask Tom to wake up mygirlfriend @amymcdowell. She tells me to get changed in the bathroom and rushes me to the nearest hospital in George (25 kilometers away).
After driving for 15 to 30 minutes we finally arrive at the hospital. We go in and about 4 to 5 hours later we walk out of the hospital with a 3 layer bandage around my leg and pain pills.
We get into the car and drive towards the closest Medi-clinic (private hospital) so that we could get some crutches because the public hospital didn’t have any available.
After seeing a specialist we discovered that the swelling is due to a large amount of blood built up inside my knee. We also find out that i have rupturred all of the ligaments on the inside of my knee as well as possibly tearing my mcl and meniscus :(
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