So a couple nights ago I had a dream that I found a little amusing.  I wanted to see what others thought would be the meaning behind it.

I was helping coach volleyball.  I was playing with the girls so I had knee pads on as well.  Next thing I knew I was sitting on the bleachers and greeting my best friend, a guy I've had a crush on for years and his family.  I couldn't get up to greet them because I had injured my knee.  the knee pad was crushed and my knee was swollen so much that they had to cut the knee pad off of my leg b/c it wouldn't slide off.  They took me to the ER to get it looked at.  When the doctor called me back I claimed that everyone had to go with me b/c they were my sister, husband, and in-laws.  They did an xray to find I had shattered my knee cap and had to do surgery.  After surgery the doctor informed me that they gave me a metal knee cap.  I told them great since I was flying out to LA the next week and would have to deal with security because of it.  I also added, that if anyone attacked me I could "bust a knee cap in their crotch".

The I woke up.  That last statement made me giggle too.

If this were my dream I would interprete it as...

A knee is of essential support. So to have a busted knee indicates the feeling of loss of support, feelings of inadequacy. The knee injury seems related in timing to the appearance of the guy you have a crush on. So, basicaly he makes you feel imbalanced and very unsure of yourself. A hospital could mean 2 things, and in this case I'm inclined to say it indicates a sense of helplesness, a sense of losing control over yourself, because the first thing you do when going there is make all the people in your dream already present with you to come with you to the hospital. Getting everybody to come along shows a high need of seeking support and help. You wouldn't be seeking it if you did not feel you lacked it.
But eventually a hospital is a place of healing... and it heals you by giving you a metal kneecap. Metal is exactly the cure you were looking for: it stands for strength of character. So, it's no surprise that you can display a cocky attitude once you have the metal kneecap.
The mentioning of a future flight indicates that once you regained your strength of character with the metal kneecap, you are almost ready for a new stage in life. Although you seem to think that perhaps your newly gained character might cause some negative reaction from others, may make them feel insecure about trusting you.

So, in short, the dream mirrored your own feelings of helplesness and insecurity around your crush, that you somehow regained strength again through some unknown means, but that with that strength it's time for another stage than having a crush (maybe you develop something more fruitful than a crush, or maybe you're finally ready to notice someone else... who knows?), but since this is all so new you're wondering whether it might not surprise people who knew you differently before, enough to make you fear they wouldn't trust you. But it seems you're pretty happy with the new strength and sounds like you're feeling "take it or leave it" if you don't like it.

Hope that helps

very interesting interpretation of it.  i have in fact done my own interpretation of the dream.  i just don't always trust my own interpretation because i tend to be biased by background info i already know about my life, so i don't feel they're as accurate.  i didn't even think of looking at this dream being about insecurity and regaining strength.  i looked more at commitment issues due to past hurt that i need ed to fix immediately if i ever wanted to be happy.