Day 6
Went to the Sheffield Climbing Clinic to see James. He was really good, turns out the LCL diagnosis was duff as expected (not that I blame them hard to look at in A&E) and that what I definitely have is a grade 2 MCL tear and a very slightly possibly impinged ACL.
MCL no surgery just loads of rehab, no climbing for about a month post injury, probably about 12 weeks to get it nicely rehabbed up apparently. The ACL seems very minor and could just be inherent laxity as my left knee is also very loose. The plan is to rehab the MCL and see if any ACL symptoms pop up. If they don't cool, if they do that would need surgery but won't get any worse in the meantime and we can get to that when we get to it. It is the view of James that he would be surprised if I do need any surgical treatment.
So yeah a serious MCL injury but fixable and far from the worst case scenario. All in all somewhat positive, could be way worse and much longer out.