During the spring, I play for the Chicago Fire Department "Blaze". The Blaze, play in The National Public Safety Football League. In summer its Spartan season. The Ironman Football League season runs June through September.
My life doesnt revolve around football. My life does seem to revolve around staying in football shape. My job requires it, and I love putting the work in to be so. My work shifts rotate. 24 hours on, 48 hours off. However, I still consider myself to have a 7 day 'work' week.
Recently my activity level has come to a screeching halt. March 10th, while playing in The Blaze's season opener, I tore my Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) in my left knee. Your ACL is one of the four major ligaments in the human knee, and is responsible for stabilization during any activity requiring cutting, pivoting, twisting and rapid acceleration and deceleration. All of those movements are pretty important for most athletes, and, you guessed it- Firefighting.
Surgery was March 26th. I'll talk more about that in another post.
Hopefully this blog gives me something to do during recovery. I'm also going to use it to record my progress, and workouts along the way. My biggest goal, is to get back in the Firehouse as soon as I'm 100%- obviously, I cant fight fires 3 weeks after surgery (Doc says 5-6 months, Im hoping to make it more like 4-5). Returning to football is important to feeling like a full recovery was made. To do so I need to be able to trust that I can be the type of player I was before the injury.
So, welcome. For anyone that stumbles across this blog, feel free to leave your input. Maybe some of my future recovery stories will help someone with a newer injury see what they have to look forward to.
Best of luck, Flick! I'm confident you'll dominate this challenge like any other...
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