In this first-person video, the speaker recounts a May 2022 incident where she stepped off a curb, fell slowly, and injured her knee. An ACL avulsion occurred, pulling the top of the tibia off, which doctors described as a rare "broken knee" typically seen in children. She did not undergo surgery, hoping natural healing would occur, and began exploring therapeutic patches to aid recovery. She also reflects on earlier foot surgeries from 1992, when she had bunions removed on both feet. The surgeon overcorrected one foot and undercorrected the other, resulting in "windswept" toes—one foot's toes pointing outward and the other's inward. This led to additional surgery planned for August. The narrative highlights the physical limitations imposed by these injuries, her motivation to seek alternative healing methods, and the ongoing medical journey.
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The year before was May of 2022 that I stepped off a curb and I went down and I didn't fall hard or anything. My son was right beside me and he's like, Mom, what are you doing? Because I was like slow motion and I was just sitting down really slow all the way to the ground. And then when I got there, my knee hurt so bad that I put my legs up in the air. I fell backwards. So that was kind of a hysterical thing. Everybody thought, what on earth is this person doing? I can't believe she's doing this in the park. Parking lot at the elementary school. So anyway, I had actually— my ACL had torn, but when it tore, it hadn't really torn itself. But what happened was where it attaches to my tibia, it had pulled the top of the bone off. So when I went to the doctor, they said, oh wow, you have a broken knee. And he said, we don't see that in people your age. We usually see that in 10-year-olds when they're jumping on the trampoline. And I said, well, I wasn't jumping on the trampoline. So that kind of put an end to some of my, you know, I like to walk daily and some of the exercise things that I did. So that slowed me up a little bit. And that was another reason I was looking to do the patches because I thought, okay, I need to heal this up because I didn't have any surgery. I didn't, he said, you know, you can probably heal if you're You know, if you just let it heal, maybe it'll grow back and, you know, you'll have the ACL won't be, because it's not actually torn itself, but it's just, you know, it's pulled the bone off. So I know that it's probably at this point a little looser because this year, a year after I had my knee, then I decided, oh, I just have this foot that's really weird. It was like The doctor said, I've never seen anybody with windswept toes like that. What had happened was, and I, it was like 1992, Nikki was going off to college and I had bunions and I decided they were just killing me and I needed to have stuff done. So before she went to college, I had surgery on both of my feet. So I had bunions removed on both feet. Well, long story short, the, the gal that did my surgery said when I left, oh, you know what? I overcorrected your left foot, so I undercorrected your right foot. And so here I was with this toe that on my left foot that just stuck out like this, and this one was starting to move with it, and it was just spreading, you know, like that. And the other side was moving the opposite way. That's why he said you have windswept feet. And so I went in for surgery the end of August
