{"id":338,"date":"2010-04-22T13:35:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T18:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jackswriting.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2013-03-06T13:35:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T18:35:52","slug":"progress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jackswriting.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve gotten a little feedback from the last e-mail I sent out. Some of you thought I sounded very depressed and offered me reassurance that life would go on. Some of you thought I was whining too much, and tried to bring me back to reality. But some of you took it for what I meant it to be…a poke of fun at us Trilanders (and I’m as guilty as anyone) on how we react to temporary injuries or, more to the point, permanent changes that we will have to adapt to<\/span>. At any rate, I found out that more than one or two of you read this drivel, so I’ll continue writing.<\/span><\/p>\n

I went back to the doctor this morning and it was just like a repeat of a week ago. “That’s one big knee…a lot bigger than the other one. Let’s take some fluid off. You’ll feel much better”. I told him the procedure ranked third in the list of the health care procedures I hate,<\/strong> behind (no pun intended) 1) The “night before” prep for a colonoscopy, 2) A prostate exam when I had prostititis.<\/em> Drawing out the fluid really didn’t hurt all that much, but it wasn’t a skip in the park either. I think I was playing it up so I would sound like more of a he-man for gritting my teeth and taking it. Actually I was not so much concerned about the procedure, but the nagging pain afterward. It doesn’t hurt in that stabbing pain sense, but in that toothache in the background sense.<\/span><\/p>\n

As I was watching Dr. Merriman do the procedure, I thought back to all those times he would come into my office to pick up his taxes and I would say “Here’s what you owe”. I wondered if, in the back of his mind, he was thinking “Now you know how I felt. Here’s what you owe…bam!”<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, that wasn’t the only thing I did today. At the cottage, for the past couple of days, I’ve seen a drip of water on my workbench. I called a plumber and I had to meet him right after the doctor’s appointment. I thought, originally, that the drip was coming from the small water feed to the icemaker. When I looked at it closer, it was from the sink\/dishwasher area. With the knee problem, I couldn’t tell him exactly where it was coming from. Now, $197.00 later, there is no drip. Will someone please buy this cottage and save me some money?<\/span><\/p>\n

If that wasn’t enough, I had physical therapy at 3 PM. I know what they need to do, and I know it’s going to hurt. I need to strengthen the muscles on that right knee\/quad area and I need to improve my range of motion. Both require exercises and stretches that push the limit of what I think I can do. The therapists are very nice, and I can see that they empathize, but they know it will pay off in the end. With the knee pain, and the pain from physical therapy, there are times I wonder if I would have been better off doing nothing, and limping for the rest of my life. Uhhhhh, NO!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

So here I am writing another e-mail for therapy. Partially for my own mental health, but it gives me a chance to sit here resting, drinking a Bell’s Porter. I wonder if Dr. Merriman would approve of beer and vicadin? I’m not going to ask him and don’t any of you ask for me!<\/span><\/p>\n

Just (Ready To Get Back To Whatever Normal Is) Jack<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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