physical therapy

Knee surgery. No big deal. Simple carpentry techniques applied to a human leg. I had my right knee surgically repaired when I was nineteen. Some good painkillers, some excellent sympathy and I was better than before.Two decades later the other knee needed work.No big deal. Except this time I ended up with complications like fevers, night sweats, blood clots, infections and compulsive complaining. My leg was immobilized so long that the repaired joint didn’t bend at all,hardly qualifying it as a knee.

Part of me is thrilled at the prospect of not starting each workday with an argument. But another part of me misses her feistiness already. The rest of my patients, so easygoing and cooperative, are almost boring by comparison.