But it's much better to look younger than to look older, try to understand it and it's much better to make photos in the hat than when ur mouth is full of pasta
Thanks for proving again my words about you (all the bad one) and thanks for showing your true face again and again . I knew that for nobrainer like you it will be hard to understand that gaming zone is banned for me.
I see now :P ... doubt waiting before surgery would have a detrimental effect on your chances of having a healthy knee again, otherwise the doctors would have warned you already ;) ... it is very likley, however, that by waiting you are making this whole ordeal a lot longer and tougher on yourself that it has to be ... and chances are, again depending on the extent of the initial damage, you'd have to have the surgery anyway in order to set the ligaments right.
So, unless the specialist specifically warns you against having a surgery, for a reason I can't imagine right now, provided there are good surgeons available to do the surgery (who'd want a trainee to tinker with their ligaments, right :P), then I would do the surgery ASAP.
if that's the case, and if the specialist has doubts about whether you will recover w/o surgery, then I would do it asap (at least it's what I would do). This type of surgery isn't too big a deal nowadays, me thinks, and is the preferred way to go for athletes, and not only, as it guarantees that the ligaments would be set properly and time for recovery would be the shortest.
the pain from the surgery itself shouldn't be much worse than what you have had to endure already - these days, in a well equipped hospital, afaik, they make relatively small incisions that reduce the healing process of the cut and shorten the period for which you might have to take any painkillers, if at all.
Sounds to me you are more worried about the act of having surgery itself but you shouldn't as this is a relatively safe/routine surgery these days and would think that's the case in any modern country out there.
I wasn't talking about you loving Marchisio but LOOOOOOVING him, if you catch my drift :P
I'd think the decision whether to have surgery or not should be taken sooner than that, Klini (if possible, of course). iirc, it's been 3+ months now since the injury and I would think within a month they should be able to tell whether surgery is needed or not. After the surgery, I think you'd be looking at another 3-5 months of rehab, depending on the extent of the ligament damage, so the sooner you know which way to go, the better. Of course, I am not familiar with the whole situation, especially when it comes to medical cost/coverage, etc, but if having surgery isn't a big issue, I think waiting for another 4+ months could just delay the whole process a bit too much. Just my 2 cents :)