Radio Blog: Jason's Torn Meniscus!

Jason has been recovering from his torn meniscus and it's been far from easy for him!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, they talk better than These are the radio blogs
on the freadh showing in our diaries, except we say
them aloud.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
We call the blogs Jason. Yes, go right ahead, Thank you,
dear blog. So I'm sure you've heard if you've been
listening to this program. However, if you haven't, I recently
had knee surgery to repair a torn meniscus and it's
a very long and slow recoup process.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
You have two personal nurses named Paulina. Yes, it's weird
that you make them wear nurse outfit whatever.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Hey, you know fit the part. So as part of my.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Make me wear a nurse outfit and I had nothing
to do, and it's the same one you have not wear.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
You never know when you may need to jump in
and help out. You know, it's becoming time. I might
eat a spongebasston anyway. So part of my like rehab
is that I have to go to physical therapy. And
I've never done this before, but yesterday was my third
in her fourth visit, and it's so awkward in like

(01:04):
so many different ways. Like I'm not doing a lot,
Like currently my leg is just stuck straight and I'm
not at the point where it's healed enough yet where
we can do a lot of like bending or walking
or anything like that. So like the first fifteen minutes
they're like massaging it, okay, and you guys know how
much I hate people touching me, and so like I'm
really just trying to breathe and like get through this process,

(01:27):
you know. And then like the hardest thing that I
have to do is like a leg lift, right, like
me just lying but like like lifting my leg completely straight.
But then like I, by far am the youngest person
in this physical therapy place, okay. And then there's like
my girl Nancy over there, she's walking around doing lunges
with weights and like all this stuff. And then Oscar's

(01:49):
over there on the power bike thing like with his
little like policyst with his arms, and like there's me
just lying there like I can't do anything or whatever.
It's just it's such a funny and environment to be in.
It's like a like a older person gym. And then
there's me just laying on a table.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
It's amazing odd and I don't I don't mean to
stay at the obvious, but I feel like we all,
especially when we're younger, we take for granted basic things
like walking, you know, and like you know, feeling good,
you're back, not hurting or whatever. And when you're debilitated
like this, and it's like you realize why it's important
to take care of all this stuff because it's a

(02:27):
very it's a very helpless feeling, it really is to
be in that situation and you're watching everyone else with
all their mobile all their mobility, right, like you.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Got a new shoulder or something like, you know, like
there's me. It takes me ten minutes just to get up,
like you know, like I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
It's basic stuff like being able to put your own
pants on, you know, the change my right right. These
are the kind of things that you you don't really
think about until you can't do them, and then you
have to go to you know, physical therapy to help
learn relearn how to literally on your own underwear.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
To change my socks, yes, like and I have to
do this for like twelve weeks or something like. It's
just it's crazy. I will never be sitting down again,
like once I have my new megan knee, like I
you can't tell me nothing. I'm going to everything. I'm
going to be outside. It's happening because when he tells
me I can't go.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
No. I love how you've made this about a knee
when you really got a VBL. We all know it.
Don't have to go to physical therapy with the VIEA
for that. But after his VBO