NWR- completely torn ACL grade 3

Holy crap! my mom tore her ACL and i cant remember an exact time line so ask your doctor but i kind of think that you maybe in a knee brace at your wedding but you might be able to walk down the aisle. ask the doctor.

Thanks surfer girl! I know, it's brutal. I'm definitely asking him tomorrow I was just trying to prepare myself. I'll be so sad if I have to wear this ugly brace under my dress :/ as long as I can walk and dance I'll be happy-ish

Best of luck! i hope the appointment goes well, if you look online you can find rough estimates for healing time. I found roughly 4-8 weeks. of course it all depends on your case.

Thanks so much! Yeah I looked it up but it really varies per case. My dr said my acl is completely gone. I need a graph from either my own body or a cadaver... Which freaks me out. I just thought I'd throw it out there to see if anyone knew anything about it from experience. Trying to ease my mind. Thanks for the well wishes I appreciate it!! I think we'll have to at least postpone our honeymoon

I'm so sorry; that sounds very painful I hope you get better soon!!

Aww thanks so much Courtney! Just hoping to be okay for the wedding!

Lauren my mom had to have a tendon from a cadaver to repair hers too so it was pretty bad. (idk why i felt the need to share that lol) she had to wear the brace for a while but wasn't on crutches terribly long.

Do you get short-term disability through your work? That might help with the bills and being out of work.

Thanks surfer girl! Yeah I think the cadaver donation would be a quicker healing time I just have to get passed the idea of it :/ I appreciate you sharing that's very helpful!!

Sarah I'm actually a self employed nanny so I don't get any of that. They are looking to hire someone else in the mean time. I'm so upset I love those kids. At least one is a flower girl in my wedding!

My Dh had a torn ACL, not as bad as yours sounds though. He has also had 3 surgeries and is missing his meniscus in one knee. I know that the recovery wasn't fun (what recovery is?) but I believe he was up and walking pretty quick with the ACL one, just with a brace and it was hard. =/ condolences for you, but I think 2 months away, you should hopefully be ok!

Ahh you gave me hope, thank you Mrs Gee!!!

You're welcome! its hard it all depends on the person and the surgery unfortunately! Don't skip on PT though! I had a meniscal tear and I was running 2 weeks later. I think I did ok because I was motivated to get up and tired of any pain, I am allergic to pain meds so I did anything post op without meds. However I never did PT and in November before our wedding, I twisted it and I think I have torn whatever they fixed =/ My fault though!

Hang in there and do what the doc says, they know their stuff.. I apparently thought PT was a joke and skipped it, I now have to go in again lol

I think you'll be ok though, and I know itll be tough away from work because you love your job! But you can catch up on tv, relax, wedding plan and spend more time in WW!

You are so sweet mrs gee! Really lifted my spirits, I needed that. Thank you so much! I def won't be skipping out on PT!

I have no useful advice about torn ACL but I hope you have a speedy recovery!

Thank you so much miss NC!

Good lord Lauren!! Hoping for a speedy recovery for you I have purposely taken a TEN week hiatus from horseback riding so that something like this didn't happen to me. I would have never thought you'd get that injured riding a mechanical bull! Like you said, good thing you had a blast doing it & it really is a good story good luck

I am not a doctor nor do I have any experience with this type of injury so I can't be of much help on that end. However I would advise you to completely follow orders with whatever amount of rest they recommend! Your wedding isn't very far away, so I know it will be tempting to over-do things while trying to tie up all the loose ends. I think if you don't flare up the injury you will be fine by October. Best wishes to you for a speedy recovery!!!

Thank you so much! Ahh yeah your smart for making that decision! I was SO excited to ride that thing too I insisted on going after the game, who would have known all this would happen... Hoping to look back and laugh at it all... just glad we decided on an earlier bachelorette party! Thank you so much for your well wishes!

I agree Brittany, thanks for that reminder! I'm very stubborn/independent and have been planning my wedding for a year and a half now. I just hope it's everything I wanted it to be. There's still so much to do it's driving me crazy! FH has been amazing through it all along with my family and BMs. Got a long road a head but through sickness and health right? thank you! You ladies are making me feel a lot better.

I tore my ACL and meniscus in high school and had the repair with the cadaver tendon. It was pretty sucky. The brace you have to wear keeps your leg COMPLETELY straight and that's a pain in the ass. Then you slowly get angles... 15 degrees, 30 degrees, etc lol. The physical therapy was annoying (2x per week) but it wasn't super painful. I remember when I first got out of surgery my entire leg was covered in bruises and I had to take pain medicine for two weeks, but after that I don't remember it hurting much at all. Are you getting it done laparoscopically? I did, so I only have 3 small entry hole scars, and one two-inch scar so that part is good. Oh, but I did lose a lot of the feeling around my knee due to nerve damage, but I heard that doesn't happen to everyone. Good luck, it's a frustrating process but you'll get through it. Make sure you have a lot of movies on hand... it's hard to get around with the full leg brace!