Eric Bailey's

Well I went and saw the Dr today about my knee. I have been waiting 3 weeks for this appointment. He promised to wrench my knee around. So today as he holds my leg he tells me to relax, don't worry. The reminds of the chiropractor just before he snaps my neck. It is hard to make yourself relax when you are anticipating pain. I got through the testing process fairly easily. There is still swelling in the knee (a little) and so the Dr says it takes about 6 weeks for that to go away. Odds are that I have dodgged a bullet, that my knee is going to be just fine after it finishes all the normal healing. The main ligaments seem to do well when he yanks on my leg. The only place that there was some pain was when he was poking the side of my knee. This is where that other cartiledge is. This is the padding between the bones in the knee. The thought is that I have likely torn a piece of this, but not enough to impede with anything that I do. So far my knee does not have any problems with locking, I have almost all of my movement, and when the rest of the swelling goes down I should have the rest of the movement back. After Christmas, if I'm careful, I should be able to try a little bit of light hockey (no contact) and other such sports. Hopefully somewhere in there we will get this Rec Centre membership and I will be able to start working out using my mornings differently than I currently am.

Right now I get up in the morning, get the lunches packed for the boys. I get Liam going, and have him eat. Sometime around the time I send Liam off to get dressed for the day, Haaken comes down and has his breakfast. I walk Liam to the bus stop and wait with him till he leaves on his bus. Greg has been walking Haaken to school, but these last couple days he has not been able to, so I have driven Haaken to school. And finally I take Erica to work. From there I can either stay in the main part of town or take the 10-15 drive back to our house and hang out for the day. Haaken walks home from school on his own. I meet Liam's bus at his stop, and I then drive to pick up Erica at the end of the day. Sometime in there I do cleaning, I read, play on the computer, and cook. The fun part is the currently I am teaching Greg my cooking tricks (which are all that tricky). I'm sure that Neil is dying to ask about that one.