Putting Myself Back Together

When Mind over Matter Stops Working

I’m in the waiting room of my Orthopaedic surgeon’s office, awaiting X-rays of my right knee and right foot. I’ve been nursing these two appendages along for months now, gutting it out, wearing braces and doing truncated workouts and otherwise babying my leg, but we are going on vacation that’s going to involve walking and hiking and general frivolity, and I’m in desperate need of something to get me through. Something being a VERY long needle full of cortisone and lidocaine.