Well, about a week and a half ago I had knee surgery. After a year a half of telling doctors about odd pain I was experiencing, x-rays showing nothing, reflexes fine, basically being told there was really nothing wrong with it, I found the back of knee to be seemingly swollen. I do not mean to bash doctors here. They are simply the practitioner of the art of medicine, which is in fact an art, not a science. So, once again I tromped into my doctor’s office and sure enough he said, I had a baker’s cyst.
Turns out that they used to remove these cysts years ago, but the cysts just came back. So, I needed surgery for a torn meniscus. An MRI was done and low and behold I had no ACL in that knee (anybody know what that stands for?). So, I presently have a cadaver ACL (thank you to whoever you are for your ‘organ’ donation generosity). My meniscus is repaired and I now face 6-8 months of recovery. Recovery means I do certain movements and exercises on my own, go to therapy, and follow the doctor’s orders.
Hummm….serious parallels to other types of therapy I am familiar with!
So, exercise nut that I am, I am really chomping at the bit to start moving!! I want to walk again!! I want to do my almost daily 3 miles. I have been doing some stretching and a little upper body work with some cd’s that I have. I sure hope I am not over-doing it.
It happens that this is my right knee I have been talking about. If you ever have to have anything like this done, please make sure it is your left one!! I am going to drive myself to a doctor’s appointment and do some grocery shopping a couple of days from now. How? By driving with my left foot. I will lift this thigh to ankle leg brace up over the console of my car and yes, drive with my left foot. I practiced doing this before the surgery. If any of you are doubters, my surgeon actually told me to do this, so I will. In this much too busy world we live in, others are just not always available. I really want to get out on my own anyway.
So, three months before any jogging. Bummer. I really do not do a lot of that at my age, but love to when I can. We have a neighborhood walking group that is a lot of fun, and sometimes I just drink in a morning walk by myself. It is such a time of worship, prayer, and practicing my memorizing of the book of James. I am slow as a snail on this endeavor, and may die before I really get it done, but the journey of memorizing a book of the Bible (you might notice I picked a very small one) has been amazing. Getting the Word deep within me is indescribable.
Well, I went from knee surgery to scripture memory. Humm….how did I get to that? Oh well, the results of both are good.
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