JamieH

April 10th, 2018 at 5:42 PM ^

I tore the meniscus in my knee playing hockey.  The way my tear worked out, it actually eventually healed without surgery.   Well healed is the wrong term--the way the doctor described it to me, I guess my tear was on the outer edge of the meniscus, and the frayed part got stuck in the joint and basically I performed a self-meniscectomy one day by accident.  I guess this happens more often than you would think. 

Mason's tear may be more severe because he is having surgery.  Or maybe they are just taking way better care of him than they did with me. :)   I never had another problem with the knee. 

Hopefully his injury is the less severe type like mine was.  Based on the comments (him saying he could play but that his knee just "didn't feel right") it sounds like it probably was. 

If that is the case, they will do a partial meniscectomy  and he'll be good to go in no time. 

https://orthoinfo.aaos.org/en/diseases--conditions/meniscus-tears/

maize-blue

April 11th, 2018 at 7:36 AM ^

Hopefully he is full go by September 1. I know they're estimating 6 weeks return but I'm sure he'll need some time after that to ramp things up. Also hopefully Ben VanS. can lock up the #2 FB\H-Back by that time too and provide some good offensive options there.