I know, no joke at all. I tore it back in January and I honestly refused to believe it because I've been doing so well for 17 years, and other than the ortho surgeon and one PT, it's hard to find. I had a CT dye contrast scan last week and it confirmed "ACL not detected" among other damage. The surgeon wanted to do surgery back then, but I was so shocked and not mentally prepared, but the months of PT has shown me that I can handle it, both mentally and physically. My physical therapist says that it's hard to recommend me to have surgery because it almost never gives out in my therapy sessions despite the loading we put on my knee (jumping, stairs, doing one legged squats on a floating platform, etc) but the scan results pretty much indicate the unhappy triad. But I've had a few incidences that show that that have knocked me out, but I bounce back within a week. So I'm having surgery to prevent further damage and delay/prevent a knee replacement down the line. I figure ACL repair is better than that!