THIS FAT OLD LADY DID A THING

Okay.  I had a thing done to me. I finally got my knee replacement.  And it has been (and continues to be) an adventure. In case you are unaware, knee replacement is a fucking terrifying surgery.  They cut off a hunk of your tibia, hammer (yes hammer)  a spike into it (for the base of…

THIS FAT OLD LADY’S BATTLE FOR SANITY AND KNEE SURGERY

It’s a long one. Sorry. Kind of. But a fat old lady’s gotta vent, ya know. I’m trying.  Really trying hard, to get my knee surgery scheduled. The prerequisites seemed deceptively simple.  1)            Get a bunch of blood work done; 2)            Schedule MRI; 3)            Get clearance from my oncologist/hematologist; and 4)            Get clearance from my…