To your Health!
I have a date for my knee replacement: October 21st. It's a relief to have a date so that I know when I can accept work but I feel like it's a count down, all the same. Not the cool, exciting count down that comes before a special trip, more of a mild panic, can-I-get-things-done kind of count down. Last week, I celebrated my 70th birthday with a trip to the walk-in clinic. I had a hacking cough which had started a couple of days earlier. Since I tested negative for Covid, I would normally have self-medicated and waited it out. But now there was the deadline of my pre-op doctor visit! A friend recently got as far as the hospital on knee-replacement day, only to be turned away because she was sick. Talk about a nightmare, after all the mental preparation! When I saw the walk-in doctor, he said he would normally take a wait-and-see approach, but since I was having an operation soon, he gave me a chest x-ray and a course of antibiotics! Happily, the antibiotics wor...
