Ambitions and goals

I have had many ambitions and goals I have strived to reach in my young life, but there is one that really sticks out to me. The one that really sticks out to me actually just happened to me about four years ago. I was seventeen years old a junior at Tell City High School and I was playing football. It was a Friday night and we were playing one of our rivals Heritage Hills High School. It all just happened all of a sudden. I was just standing on the field the play was over and I all of sudden felt probably one of the most painful things I have ever felt. It was a helmet right into the inside of my knee I went down and started yelling in pain. I had so many crazy thoughts going through my head I had know clue what happened. I thought my knee had just maybe popped out of place. I decided to stand up with a little help and I thought I was ok so I tried walking and then it popped again everybody in the stands and sidelines saw it and it was not pretty. So I had to sit out the rest of the game and actually ended up missing the rest of the season and it was not fun at all. So our team doctor took a look at it and said he was not for sure and I needed to go to a specialist so I went home and had to wait till the next morning to see a specialist in town called Jasper its about an hour from my house.

The next morning did not come soon enough; it was probably one of the worst nights of my life. So I finally got into the doctor about eleven or so the next day. He felt my knee tried twisting turning just little things to see if you could tell what was wrong my dad and me were both praying it was not the acl. So after the doctor did his thing he looked up at us and said doesn’t look good it could be the acl. Both my parents and me looked at each other and just shook our heads in disgust, but the doctor said he was not sure that I needed an mri first to be for sure. So I went through all kinds of x-rays and tests and it was final I not only tore my acl, but I also tore my mcl, pcl, and tore my ligament up the side of my knee off the bone also. The doctor said it was probably one of if not the worst knee injury he has ever seen. He said I would be out of sports for at least six months if not more. That is were my goal was set six months is all I planned on being out, so this is were one of my most important goals of my life so far would have to began and that was rehabbing to get back to normal and let me tell you it was a fun process. I drove to jasper everyday for about three months straight for rehab and let me tell you I got extremely sick of that drive. It was probably one of the hardest things I have ever had to do so far in my young adult life. My goal was to be back for baseball that spring many people doubted me said there is no way with it being that bad that I could be back so fast, but I proved all of them wrong don’t get me wrong I was not back to a hundred percent but I was back enough to play. I did miss basketball, which was pretty tough, but I was happy that was all I had to miss. Many people were wondering weather I would play football again and be the same Michael I always was, but everyone I asked I told them not to worry that next season number twelve would be out there. So that summer came and I did it I’m not going to lie I was a little hesitant at first but about three games into the season I felt like I was back to the old Michael I didn’t even were knee brace I just didn’t want people to know I had a bad one that the could shoot for. To me this process helped me in all aspects of my life. Now I don’t feel like there is not anything I can’t do if I can come back from that I can do anything, because that was a pretty tough thing to go through.