Maybe I need a different arbitrary date marker.

Feb 14, 2008 13:07


Major Life-Change Day is kind of made of fail, this year.

Three years ago yesterday/today, I blew my knee. This precipitated some of the hardest lessons I've learned in my life, and while I wouldn't un-know the knowledge, I can't say I enjoyed the process.

Two years ago, I started post-op PT on the knee. Things were looking up. I did not then know that I was going to blow the other knee, though I wasn't all that surprised when it did happen. I was also enmeshed in the unnecessarily-difficult process of determining whether I could donate bone marrow to for my brother's cancer treatment.

One year ago, give or take a week, I finally admitted that whatever the hell I'd done to my back wasn't going to go away on its own, and embarked on yet another odyssey through the hoops and roadblocks of the medical industry.

This year was supposed to be the year that I didn't seriously injure myself. Which is shorthand, really, for having a body that does what I need it to do and is reasonably pain-free. A body that doesn't reduce my quality of life by its failings, nor disrupt those things that are necessary to feed my soul. At the moment, that goal's chances aren't looking good.

As you may have guessed, today's dentist visit was not happy-making. More on that in a separate post.

goals, life

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