by Jim McIntosh | Apr 29, 2011 | Status |
They say that if you want to hear God laugh, tell Her your plans. Well, my plans have changed. I am not being sent to St. Petersburg, but rather to Boston, Mass. Our retirement house there has a higher level of care. (This full-leg fiberglass cast that I have to wear...
by Jim McIntosh | Apr 27, 2011 | Status |
Monday morning, I went over to Georgetown University Hospital for the operation on my knee. The operation took about an hour and a half and was a success. (Although one of the residents later told me that I was a “fighter” and the anesthesiologists kept...
by Jim McIntosh | Apr 21, 2011 | Status |
I met with the orthopedic surgeon this afternoon. He told me that the patellar tendon in my knee had been torn. I’ve been learning a lot of physiology. The knee has muscles, bone and cartilage. There are also ligaments, which connect bones to bones, and tendons,...
by Jim McIntosh | Apr 20, 2011 | Status |
Today, I went for the MRI exam on my knee. I have never had something like this so it was fun… until he said, “Don’t move the knee for the next 30 minutes.” Then, all I could think about was having to move my leg. It was noisy but completely...
by Jim McIntosh | Apr 6, 2011 | Observations |
I was reading “Female Sexuality Still Terrifying to Conservative Lawmakers,” and it stuck me how much this fear of female sexuality drives much of the social turmoil we see these days. The last century saw two major changes in thought: Race and Sexuality....
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