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buzzycrumbhunger

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7. The knee thing is miserable!
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 06:51 PM
Jun 2

I shattered mine in a slip & fall working as a commissioner for the Boy Scouts, of all things… Stepped in a hole in a dark, rainy grass parking lot and twisted, crushing my tibial plateau. They put me back together with graft from my hip and lots of metal plates and screws but now, 20 years later, I have zero cartilage and have been wearing a brace to keep the upper and lower halves of my knee walking the same direction. It’s past time for a knee replacement but I don’t know that I can afford the time off from work so I’m gimpy. It’s definitely screwed up my gardening (and anything that involves squatting, kneeling, or being able to get back up off the floor).

Long way to say I’m wincing in solidarity.

My dinner is going to be a reheated baked tattie (in my IP’s air fryer so it browns a bit) and sweet corn with some morel gravy to dress it up. This morning, I found I’d gotten strawberries but forgot about them so that’s my big dessert splurge.

Still need to get serious about making kombucha so I can only enjoy yours vicariously.

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