Once Upon an Aching Knee. . . .

Two days ago, at lunch, I was trying to be nice by going around the table to sit closer to the drug rep who had brought lunch to hear about her products, and in doing so I hit my left upper thigh against the corner of the window sill.

Which was bad enough, I whacked it hard enough to break the skin and got a nice egg-sized bruise. But that pain passed quickly and my right knee soon began to scream at me. My right foot must have been firmly planted on the floor, so the jolt against the sill jarred the knee. Within minutes it swelled up so that the neoprene sleeve I wearing became painfully tight.

And I left the lunch room to go back to my office to whimper and whine.

The knee that had been seeming to improve to the point where I was taking less and less of the medication feels like it's back to square one.

One step closer to going for an MRI. One of these days, when I have a spare moment.

This past Sunday Thea and Micah got to spend the afternoon with Tesh, and Mary (Tesh's daughter), and Jesse (the practice administrator's son) while Steve and I went to the wedding of one of the doctors who used to be at the practice. They got to go see Ice Age 3D, visit the cats and play mini-golf while we got to hang out with grown-ups. The bride's grandmother lives in a house on the Delaware River, and the family must've bribed the weather gods because they had a perfect day. Sunny, bright, a few clouds in the sky, sailboats bobbing at the docks. During the time between the ceremony and reception, Steve and I went with Monique (one of the NPs at the practice who moved on to greener pastures in retail health) and Charlie to a dockside bar on the river for a drink.

The reception was an food fest, from the cocktail hour to the dinner, to the dessert bar. So we were stuffed like ticks and slightly liquored up. So much so that Monique actually stayed for most of the reception despite her 'weddings give me a rash' attitude. And as a bonus, we snagged an invitation to her pool in a couple of weeks.


Thea is having fun at the YWCA's Adventure Camp, a two-week break from YingHua. Her friend Emily is in the same group (the Lions), and she gets to go swimming every day. Micah is doing well in school and the calendar is gradually creeping closer to the surgery date as summer rolls on. . . .