My Crazy 4th of July Mishap!

[StangFlyer]

Ok - what happened to me last night on 4th of July night is almost unbelievable everyone. Early in the day I decided to jack up the back of the Mustang so that I could drop down my fuel pump/filter assembly in order to change my fuel filter. I took my fuel system down and out of the car, and decided I'd put it back together later in the evening when it cooled down.

After that, we had a pretty good holiday... We BBQ'd and went swimming, and all that stuff. Afterwards, around 9 PM, I decided to go back out into the garage and bolt the fuel system backup so I could fire up the Stang and go for a cruise later. I got everything finished, and so I slid myself out from underneath the Mustang so I could drop it back to the ground. However, as I stood up I also started to turn (or rotate my body on my legs). When I was in the middle of doing this all of a sudden I felt, and heard, a big pop in my knee! Holly crap it hurt, and I dropped to the floor in some serious pain!

So, I laid there grabbing my right knee almost in tears trying for the life of me to figure out what I could have possibly done to have my knee explode into such pain. Any ways, I ended up trying to walk on it after several minutes and it hurt bad. I simply could not put any pressure on my leg, or for that matter hardly even move it. I then decided I had obviously somehow done something serious to it and went to the hospital...

As it turns out, what I did was twist my knee with just the right amount of pressure the wrong way and popped my knee cap out of place. It then either bruised or damaged the tissue/ligament on the front left side of my knee cap. They did ex-rays, but it had already popped back into place. They said that it most likely did so when I tried to walk on it. They ended up wrapping my leg and putting a big brace on it to immobilize my knee. They also prescribed to me 800 mg Motrin pills and Vicodin.

I am now basically a gimp! They said I can't use my leg for at least 3 days. I'm also supposed to go to my doctor too on Monday, and I'll probably have to go see a bone specialist too. This is just crazy! Can you believe I did this just standing up from underneath the Stang?! Shhheeeeesshhh!