“During surgery, the doctors said they needed to make sure my ligaments underneath my knee were in the proper position and fuse my tendons back together,” he added.
In order to help my body fuse the tendon back together as best it could, they next had to create an internal brace and insert two sutures into my shin.
I couldn’t move my legs while I was in bed. I was concerned about everything. “Will I be able to walk again?” I asked myself. How much time will it take?
Since there is no solid explanation for the injury—it was a strange accident with no signs—the best opinion is that it was possibly caused by the stress of the day.
“Two patellar tendons going at the same time is extremely uncommon,” the doctor remarked.Jones also remembered the terrible “deathly silence” that surrounded his wounds.
Silence is the strangest thing I can recall. He said, “I just lay on the floor as the entire crowd cheered everyone on and then it went deathly silent.”
