It's either ruptured ligaments or torn cartilage. Or perhaps torn ligaments or ruptured cartilage?
I'm not sure which. Even if I had a choice, which I don't, I don't know which I'd choose. Shot in the knee or smashed with a sledge hammer?
Given such options I look to happier decisions. Short stories, novels or travel writing - the three highest stacks in my piles of the unwritten.
Self-discipline has given way to misplaced self-pity.
What a load of bollocks.
I'll choose the former and flip a coin as to the ligaments and cartilage.