Life on the Upswing

I was maybe in 3rd grade when I knew I had weird knee issues.

Just randomly running around after school, I vividly remember tripping, then feeling something pop and come back. That first day was one of the most painful experiences I could remember. I couldn’t recognize my movement or my body much in the same way again. As I got older, I was suffering from what I later would know as patellar instability (frequent knee cap…