I'm so good at this!

Unbelievable! It's been over a year since my last post. I suppose I'm not the worst at this as I find other blogs that have been dormant for years.

What's new? The most recent events have been the total replacement of both of my knees. The left in October and the right in December. Initially messed up in sports with previous arthroscopic surgeries to trim cartilage and peek at torn ligaments, and then arthritis. It was so bad I couldn't walk for more than 15 to 30 minutes without having to sit and take the strain of my knees.

Here's a pic of what the knee prostheses look like. I was going to put 2 pics in (one for each knee) but one of my daughters said this was gross enough.

Not that there isn't any pain now but it's getting better, not worse. I was actually able to use an elliptical walker this past week and get out of breath. It felt great! Must be those long lost endorphins. I am still enjoying the benefits of occasional Vicodin but the need is decreasing and it will soon be unnecessary.

My physical therapist has been great (I say that while not being drugged). The sessions are difficult but "no pain, no gain". I'm soooo looking forward to hiking and geocaching when the snow goes away.

I have found now that having 2 "fake" knees and pins in my left heel from an unfortunate encounter with a cow has made me a pariah among my traveling companions. They breeze through airport security ahead of me and enjoy a six course meal while waiting for me to get "wanded". The past two wandings have been from tall black men who chuckle their way through the procedure. They all want to know what happened and break out in full laughter when I tell them the cow story.

A brief digression. To say the above reminds me of the scene in The Four Feathers, where Djimon Hounsou chides Heath Ledger about the way Englishmen laugh.

Back to the snow. Argh, the snow. That's where I've been getting my exercise lately. This make 6 or 7 weekends in a row that it has snowed. Today's started at about 5am with a few flurries flitting under the streetlight but it only amounted to about an inch of the stuff that you can float away with a broom. Never had snow like this Back East. I mean the fluffy stuff. We still have 4 foot drifts in the back from previous snows and 2 to 3 feet in the front. Yesterday I finally chipped away the refrigerator size chucks of ice from the driveway. The past month has made us LOVE our Subaru.

Nuff for now.

Comments

[CHRIS]

Glad that they're rebuilding you (... better than you were before - better, stronger, faster!)

C

[PaperYarnGirl]

Hey! You can't say things like "unfortunate encounter with a cow" and not explain...

Good to hear from you :-)

[William Hays]

M, read my blog below from March '05. I got stepped on by a cow with no backup lights.