Knee Happenings – Last week The Wife and I went to her ortho because she wasn’t improving on her right knee. In fact, her bending was getting worse. Her PT said it might be time for manipulation under anesthesia (MUA). Except, that’s something done in the first six to eight weeks, not more than 12 weeks post-op. The ortho was concerned when he saw her, and then proceeded to imply that a) she wasn’t doing her exercises, and b) she should have known that her PT’s weren’t pushing her hard enough. Let’s just say that annoyed both of us. Anywhoo, the ortho agreed after seeing how much play there was in The Wife’s knee. We can do this, but there’s about a 70-80% chance of it working. Oh, and there’s a remote chance the procedure will result in a breaking of the femur. And a remote chance if that happens it will result in amputation. Okay, even knowing that, we’ll do this. Great, we’ll see about getting you into the hospital tomorrow.

So, the next day, we traveled down to the hospital. I felt bad for The Wife. Procedure was squeezed in for the early afternoon. Which meant she wasn’t going to eat or drink anything until dinner. The good news is that it was a complete success. The bad news? We had to scramble to find PT for the next week to keep the gains. On the gripping hand – so to speak – The Wife found a PT practice she likes better than the one she was going to.

Writer Happenings – I’m almost done with the third volume of I Want To Serve, and I noticed a few things. One thing was that I really need volume titles and chapter titles. I also need to clean up some unintentional dangling threads and continuity errors. So, I’m going to leave Volume 1 up as a “preview” and work on the rest. Then when Promise finishes up, I’ll start posting the new volumes and chapters then. I’m also going to go back and give chapter titles to the Promise chapters. So, look for those.