P.T.

We are now at the second phase of my physical therapy, for the knee that’s so much worse than the first one.

Michael, my PT, tells me it’s good, that a lot of people refuse to do the second knee if the first one’s too painful. The x-ray certainly looked bad — including a lima-bean shaped chunk of bone that was floating above the knee. And the knee still isn’t as straight as the other one.

Still, we make it down to the end of the hall. I see a little old lady who’s on her first knee and she’s doing pretty well, she says. I have a little over a week to go, with an ungodly heat wave to endure.