The injury ranking will be the ranking from the week when she played her last match. So it won't be as low as her current ranking.
As a former slam winner, Monica can get unlimited wild cards. However, these are at the discretion of the tournament director. Whereas with the proteced ranking, as long as she enters before the deadline, they have to accept her.
It turns out what some of us speculated might happen, did happen. Monica said she didn't want to have the surgery because she didn't want to be off the tour for 2-3 months. Yet it turns out she was anyways.
She should have had the surgery before. But then, hindsight is always 20/20. I'm sure if she had known this would happen, she would have.
I have a feeling she'll be back in 2004. She'll have a sense of unfinished business.