I was running as fast as a cheetah after a rabbit, when all at once, it felt like I hit the side of a frozen rhino. I was running full speed toward an oncoming soccer ball, then smack, the ball hit me so hard in the face; I swear I saw the back of my brain. Blood was everywhere. I had no idea I was bleeding, because the air was so cold on my face it became numb. My trainer took a look at it, decided my nose wasn't broke and sent me on my merry way with what felt like a roll of toilet paper shoved up my nose. .
I probably should have stopped playing sports after graduating high school, but I just couldn't give it up. I continued to play soccer on a women's soccer league for fun after high school. The summer of 2006 will forever be a painful memory I wish I could forget. It was a beautiful sunny day to be outside playing soccer with friends. This was my first summer to play on a travel soccer team. I was in my twenties, fit and full of energy. In one instant, it became loud and clear I would never play soccer after that summer ever again. I had the ball lined up to score a goal, but when I turned to kick, my foot planted deep into the grass as my body twisted in the opposite direction; it doesn't take much to "pop" the ACL, which is typically what happens when the ACL tears. I have heard other athletes' talk about hearing the pop. I describe the sound to be like a rubber band snapping. I not only heard the pop, but felt it travel up my body from the knee so that me whole trunk reverberated with it. There is no mistaking that pop. I knew immediately what happened at that point. My leg went numb with pain as I fell to the ground. Watching my knee swell to the size of a grapefruit, I decided I need to walk it off. The pain didn't feel like a pain I had felt before. It was a numb, somewhat dull ache. Like when you hit your funny bone and it's not funny.
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