Last year, my mom spent a lot of time in the hospital because of her knee operation. She had a torn ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament), which is a common injury of basketball players, and medial cartilage meniscus, a common soccer player injury, at the same time.
It all started in January 2006, when she was on duty1. She was on her way to clean the lavatory when she slipped. According to her story, her face almost kissed the ceiling and she tried to save her face from hitting the counter. When she recovered from the fall, her left knee went sideways. It wasn’t twisted, her knee freakishly, literally went sideways. She was more embarrassed with the idea that somebody might have seen her slip than the idea that she had a freak accident. She regained her poise and went to the cockpit and asked the pilots if they saw her slip and fall. The pilot jokingly said that nobody saw it though they heard a loud thump as if a fridge fell. 
She was still doing well after that incident. Though there are times that she would get off balance and fall. They thought it was nothing, and at the medical they would just have an X-Ray because getting an MRI is expensive. A year had past when the ligaments and tendons holding her knee snapped. And it happened simply, we were watching a Flamenco dance concert at the Mall of Asia. She switched positions in her seat when she heard a loud bang. That was the start of a hell for us. The MRI showed the knee injury and the need of an immediate operation. The doctor said that if they had discovered the injury at an earlier time, it would have been easier to fix and would only require a short time to recover.
Good thing every accident she has had since the first fall was reported. She had an industrial leave and the company had to pay for everything. If it hadn’t, we couldn’t afford the hospitalization even with her life insurance. And good thing too that she has an insurance it would really help, though she’s not finished paying for that insurance yet. As for me, i have to be careful because i don’t have an insurance yet.
- she’s a Flight Attendant for Philippine Airlines [↩]
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