Thankful Thursday Blog Hop

OK, so it's been a week since Mom went to the orthopaedist doctor lady about her neck and her knee. Since then she's had two physical therapy sessions for her knee and an MRI of her neck. 
Turns out both of her knees have patella tracking problems - her knees have both been injured many times over the years, and never really 'fixing' them completely, they've continued to be chronically inflamed and therefore more susceptible to injury. It's like a "Catch 22," which is the title of an old movie about a human who wanted to get out of flying combat missions in a war.
To be excused, he had prove he was insane, so he was unfit to fly. Unfortunately, according to Army code 22, no sane person would want to fly combat missions because they were so dangerous. Because he was asking NOT to fly, it proved he was sane and was fit to fly, so he had to stay. Or something like that. (SPOILER! Oops... Sorry.) Now I'm confused. Actually, I think Catch 22 refers to circular logic or bureaucracy, not knees so much. 

The movie poster from 1970.
Look at the fur on that guy.

A vicious circle? Yeah, maybe more like that. Vicious like that COBRA health insurance Mom has to pay so much for, but I guess it's a good thing she did, since she'd have been paying even more right now if she didn't. 
She's doing all these exercises on both her knees to make her stronger so she doesn't fall down so much or walk funny, like me. Only one of us can be listing to the right in this family. If she's going to be listing at all, it has to be to the left, so we can keep each other straight! Just want to get that out there.

Mom's Physical Therapy Team.
How many physical therapists does
it take to screw in a light bulb??

The exercises right now are just making her legs and her ankles and her butt hurt, but she says it also feels like they're all getting stronger. (How strong does a butt have to be?) 
Her MRI showed that her neck is actually in the recovery phase of an earlier injury and it's getting better, not worse. She does still have inflammation where a nerve is pinched, but in just the one week that she's stopped doing the things the doctor told her not to do with her neck, she's like 30% better. 

No kundalini neck rolls for mom.

So, for now, no shots in the neck! Yay! Although I think a shot in my spine would do me good. Maybe I could get hers. Just sneak me in under her insurance and say I'm her. Do you think they'd notice? 
Anyway, that's what I'm thankful for today. Mom's getting better and no shots!
How about you?
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