 Every sports volleyball I've been playing it since I was a little kid. It just feels so free. I Love hitting home and it kind of takes out so much aggression. It's just it's just so fun. It's a team sport It really takes everyone to play We were playing st. Mary's my team had gone 14-0 that season was my sophomore year And I went up to hit and I came down landed on one foot and my knee kind of just gave out And I knew something was wrong. I sat out the rest of that game We ended up losing in the semi-finals after that. I went to the doctors Oh, we literally left her pediatrician's office and went right around the corner and went to the University of Maryland and Dr. Natalie Young's office shook my x-rays and she was like I can't see anything now But I think something's definitely wrong from the physical exam. I knew that she had a serious knee injury and Suspected that her ACL was torn. We then got an MRI that confirmed that she called me the next day after my MRI And she's like I have bad news you tore your ACL and you'll need surgery and you can't play in your upcoming club season And I was distraught the ACL doesn't heal well if you just sewed the two ends back together What we needed to do was reconstruct a whole new ACL for her by taking a piece of tissue from the front of her Only drilling new tunnels through the bones and stringing it through her knee to make her a new ACL We call that reconstructing the ACL. It honestly wasn't as bad as I thought it was gonna be It was pretty smooth sailing everyone at the University of Maryland orthopedics was really nice for Milani I think she did so very well because she was very motivated in her recovery After ACL surgery it hurts and everything is a little stiff and a little sore but she spent a lot of effort in the recovery process and That contributed to her great outcome to see her now to see where she's been and where she's at Whoo, it's still stressful to watch the games now now that she's out of the brace I've been used to her dad and I've been used to seeing her with the brace on and She winged herself out of the brace come July would have been the whole year So she started winging herself out of that brace and I'm like sure she's like yep It taught me so much more than I ever thought it would like it told me determination to work for what you want And I wanted to be on that court and I love volleyball and I went to play So it it told me to work for that none about how you fall is how you bounce back It's a long process, but like if you keep putting in the work you can get through it and you'll be fine Yeah, now I'm a hundred percent. I'm back. I barely have any pain I still take care of myself Definitely the injury told me to like take care of your body a little bit more be listen to your body be a little more cautious In practice recovery, so I still ice my knee. I stretch more, but now I feel better than ever