{"id":3053,"date":"2011-09-29T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2025-09-28T22:53:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:53:27","slug":"tim-knee-update-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3053","title":{"rendered":"Tim knee update #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For how Tim hurt his knee, go here &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2011\/09\/tim-footbal-playing-well-then-a-fluke-injury-on-the-sideline.html\" target=\"_self\">Tim football: playing well; then a fluke injury on the sideline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are going to Answorth Allen MD, the NY Knicks Orthopedist, on Friday to get a second opinion on his knee injury &#8211; thank yous to Jim and Ceil for steering me to Dr. Allen.<\/p>\n<p>However, it does look likely that Tim is going to need surgery on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cedars-sinai.edu\/Patients\/Health-Conditions\/Lateral-Collateral-Ligament-LCL-Tears.aspx\" target=\"_self\">Lateral Collateral ligament <\/a>&#8211; the one on the outside of your knee. It&#39;s torn where it joins the fibula. It will mean six weeks no weight bearing on the right leg after surgery, and a total of three to four months before he can engage in any sports.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, wipes out his football season. We are pretty upset about it, but we are coming to grips &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For how Tim hurt his knee, go here &#8211; Tim football: playing well; then a fluke injury on the sideline We are going to Answorth Allen MD, the NY Knicks Orthopedist, on Friday to get a second opinion on his knee injury &#8211; thank yous to Jim and Ceil for steering me to Dr. Allen. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8696,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions\/8696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}