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I am a retired English teacher and department head, the mother of three grand mother of four, and have been married to the same man for 53 years, two years after we met at college. I taught in both middle and high schools as I really love teens and in-betweens. I was also a certified Lamaze instructor, and for a short time a volunteer chaplain at Howard County General Hospital. I am a two-time cancer survivor, ovarian (2003), and breast (2019) I was born in South Philadelphia and grew up in the 'burbs with great parents, in a bilingual household. I love soft pretzels and cheesesteaks, the Phillies, the Eagles, the Orioles, and sometimes the Ravens. I love being Mom, Aunt Kathy, Nona Kathy (Kath), and Teacher. I spend a lot of time in my gardens in the spring and summer, and in the winter I plan what I'm going to plant. I also am an avid reader, cook, photographer, lover of languages, music, and four-footed furries.

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Showing posts with label knee manipulation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knee manipulation. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Walking Without a Limp

I'm alive and well and still working on getting used to my new knee, which celebrated its two-month birthday on the 17th.  I went in for what is euphemistically called a "manipulation" -- they knocked me out and manually bent my knee to 'break' the scar tissue -- two weeks ago and am doing great.  From that procedure I gained 30° more range of motion.  And when I woke up I was not in any pain.  Still doing arduous PT a few times a week (I offered my therapist my earrings if she'd stop 'stretching' me -- she refused)  -- trying to get strong for our flight to Barcelona and then cruise from there to Venice in about a month from now.


Our trip will interfere a bit with my planting, but I assure all the local nurseries that I will be at it as soon as we return.  I have a responsibility to bolster nursery sales, after all.  We have started pruning rose bushes, spraying and cleaning up, but I have not yet planned out where I'll put all the pots and more importantly, what I'll put in them.   I can do this, though, while I'm icing my knee.


My DIL posted this today of our two-month old grandson:


It reminds me of a photo Melissa took four years ago of Ariana when we visited Johns Hopkins.