I recently read a feature in the Fernie Fix which made me think about the difficulty some people face in pursuing their passions when your body is no longer in optimal form. About three years ago that was where I was. When I was 34 years old I dislocated my right knee and partially tore the ACL. I didn't rehab it properly, I dislocated it several more times, and 26 years later, after going through nine custom built braces, thousands of games of slo-pitch, over 1000 ski days, and a few thousand days on the mountain bike, I have a severely arthritic knee with no cartilage remaining in the lateral compartment, and bone on bone contact. I've had it scoped three times to clean it out and remove cartilage, and have tried Synvisc injections (an artificial lubricant) four times.
