Surgery, black day in England, 15 minutes of fame

By: Ryan | October 17th, 2007

This may be the most random post ever, but since it is anything goes here on The Sevilla Offside, I can have my way.

Surgery

I’ve had ankle problems since 1997 basically (and I’m only 24!). For the last 10 years, my ankle has been swollen to the size of a softball more often than not. I toll my ankle walking, playing golf, not even to mention playing soccer.

What you see above is a picture from my MRI. I went to an ankle specialist today to meet with him, and he looked at my MRI and said. ‘Oh yeah, I can see the problem right there.’
I said ‘What can you see?’
He said ‘See right there (pointing) you have no ligament attached to your ankle.’

Awesome.

If you look on the picture on the left hand side, the black rope looking thing is my ligament that goes on the outside of your ankle over the bone to hold your ankle from rolling over and providing general stability. See at the top where it is not attached. Yeah, that is supposed to be attached on the side of the bone up a ways from where it is now. The sad thing is the ligament has probably been unattached for years, but they never did an MRI in my first surgery in 2002. Grrr.

So I have to have what’s called a Brostrom Surgery, where they reattach the ligament to your ankle bone with screws and anchors so it becomes stable. Based on what I’ve read it seems to be pretty painful, so that doesn’t look fun, When it’s all said and done, I should be back to playing soccer in 4 months fully and won’t roll my ankle anymore playing golf, walking, etc.

Has anyone ever in The Offside community had Brostrom surgery? Just wondering what your experinces are. Mine is Dec 17th which means I’ll be blogging like no other come December.

Black day in England

Wow, way for England to blow a 1-0 lead and go down 2-1. They looked terrible and my god, Paul Robinson is absolutly shocking in goal. He should have held on to the rebound on the first goal. When will someone wake up and realize that he is terrible. I have to say I didnt see the second goal as my non exactly legal feed of the game in Mandarin Chinese was interrupted by my homework. A plagued Scottish side also went down 2-0 to Georgia (yes, that’s not a misprint). Amazing, you beat France, in France, and then lose to Georgia. Wow, if that isn’t shocking I don’t know what is.

15 minutes of fame

I find the Baker and Kelly podcast to be one of the funniest things I listen to. A few weeks ago they wanted emails about amazing halftime-fulltime speeches. I sent them in an email about my high school soccer coach and it got read on the air. Simply for the fact at they put it ‘because he’s from Niagara Falls’. If you download the latest podcast from last weekend titled ‘Niagara, Whitesnake….’ Around 11 minutes in they read out and discuss my email. It made my day driving home from Ohio State last weekend.

Sevilla news to come tomorrow.