needless to say, we need our knees...

wednesday... lunch time......

jk: oi... makan lunch...

pk: cannot la..... in hospital....

jk: why?

pk: i injured my knee when i was walking......

jk: blurred.... walking?

pk: bye...

ok, well.. the conversation didn't end like that, it was much more....much more information gathering process in the conversation, like naturally, if your close friend has to go to a hospital and not a clinic... you'd be concern rite??? rite close friends?

anyway... peter, one of the best ever right winger who has ever played the game... football/soccer, has injured his knee... the ACL ... anterior cruciate ligament...

many many many footballers have injured this part of their knees before... ronaldo... the real ronaldo... 2 or 3 times.... alan shearer..... alex del piero... robert pires... akmal rizal... samuel etoo..

alot ... even jonathan lee...

ligaments, unlike muscles will not 'grow' back when it's torn... its made up of fibres... strong ones that hold the knee together... so you have the anterior and the paella... sorrry ... patella cruciate..

both these ligaments hold the knees together..without them... you'd probably twist you knee everytime you run, sit.. walk... do stuff... standing up from the toilet after u do a poop...

so how do u fix it?? quite simple...

1. assuming your patella (by the way, the patellas the one you hit to get the knee jerk reaction)is 2 cm wide, you'll need to slice it... take like 1cm ... half of your patella out...

2. remove the torn ACL

3. screw the top and bottom of the PCL (new ACL)to your knee..

4. remove any excessive blood...

5. repair any torn meniscus.. the 'rawan' in malay... the white bits which some ppl like when u eat KFC ... which sounds like crookk crook crook crooooook when u bite it.

6. finitto..

its a keyhole surgery, so the knee doesn't have to be opened up.. no scares... and the screws which hold the new ligaments are ones which will desolve over a period of time... so it's just one time, no opening, keyhole, expensive surgery...

how much??...

1. Anaesthetic... approximately rm 5,000

2.. surgery itself... bout rm20,000

3. the satisfaction of being able to smile and do things in funny monkey positions, .... priceless..

no price can ever substitude that huh??

and yes... you do need to go to rehab..... no... no .... no... that cost a bomb too...

so yes.. enuff said... anyone who doesnt have his number and wants to say hello and get well to him... i'd happily pass u his number so u can personally call him up..

till then...

get well peter!!... i'm sure in 6 mths u'd be able to bend it like yourself in the photo.