Back to Work - November 4, 2010

Well, I’ve sat idle for much long enough. It’s time for me to get back to work. This season had entirely too many oddities for me to touch on here and now, so I’ll reserve those for another time and place. A quick summation regarding my achilles tendon rupture suffered in the BC game. Was the hit dirty? To me the question is relative. His job is to get the ball carrier down as quickly as possible, and that was quick. I certainly didn’t expect to be hit that low, so it was quite effective in that regard. Aside from that, I wouldn’t say dirty so much as unfortunate. Unfortunate in that with the two partial tears that I was already playing on, that dorsiflexed running position that I was in with my foot anchored in the ground and fully flexed was the only position that I could have been in and not sustained a large hit without re-tearing the aforementioned tears. In 14 years of football I’ve never been hit at that angle, with that force before with my leg in that position, and without enough time to react. And I’ve been hit a ton of different ways. So I’m pretty convinced that it’s kismet. I had been told all year that partial tears will bother me the rest of my career, and I will always have the risk of re-tearing. Those in the know kept stressing that it would have been better if I ruptured it. In that regard, I’m thankful. 

My situation is fortunate they tell me, in that my tendon didn’t tear from itself, but from the heel. So there is no scarring in the tendon to heal from. They simply reattached it to the heel. Two weeks post surgery and I can already stand and walk on my own power. The next 3 months of recovery won’t go quickly, but it beats the hell out of the 8 months that normally come from this injury, so once again...I feel blessed. Fortune was mine in securing Dr. Nadr Johma for my surgery and it going so well, and then again in securing my physiotherapy with Doctor Dave McGee who is legend in the field, and literally wrote the book on it. His combination of aggression and understanding will serve me well during this time, as it will help me to be able to get questions answered regarding how hard I can push this thing. It honestly already feels better than when I had the partial tears though which is crazy. When you play long enough I suppose, you forget what feeling good feels like, as you get used to being so removed from it.

I’m not going to speak of the recovery again until I’m fully recovered, so I figured I’d lay that out now. As for the season and where the team is now, I think most in the know probably figured that a team this talented, would likely start playing once it felt like it...and that’s what seems to have happened. Whether, Moncton or any other trip it seems as if they have decided to handle their business in the last half of the season refusing to lose on most occasions. I pray that they can keep it up and make a run deep into the playoffs, and hopefully even perhaps the most unlikely of Grey Cup appearances in recent years. That would really provide quite a story! Either way the offseason is right around the corner, and this one promises more change than any in recent memory - and that’s saying something! We’ll see how it goes. In the meantime, Kerry Joseph is an Eskimo, Randy Moss is a Titan, and San Francisco is has won the World Series. For the record, I always wondered why every American sports championship seems to be called “World Championships” The country really isn’t that big, and other countries play baseball, hockey, football etc. in competitive professional leagues as well. Does that make the Grey Cup winner World champion as well since no other country plays by these rules?

I digress.

Kp8

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