With ATI having a new space, they hired a new physical therapist. His name is Brad. I worked with him on Monday and will periodically for my time at ATI for my knee. I liked that his name was Brad and I remembered telling the other Brad (the one in OT school) about wanting to name my son Brad. At that point, I had only known two “Brad”s in my life and they both were GREAT men! Mr. Flint was my Lifestyles (religion) teacher in high schooi. He washed my feet in class around Holy Thursday, (I’m Catholic at it was like Jesus before Easter) I was one of the few students who volunteered for that because I didn’t care about being bare-foot in school. He told me that my feet were, “small.” The second GREAT “Brad” was my cousin Shannon’s friend. Sean’s dad didn’t like the name and asked about “Sean.” I told him that was okay if we spelled it S-E-A-N. That was the “correct” Gaelic way to spell it as my family priest told me.
I liked working with Brad. We had easy conversation the entire time he rubbed my knee out about ALL KINDS of stuff. He’s getting married in December! Something I noticed about my knee is that the outside of my knee is hurting. I told Brad about this and he worked it nicely! Then my time was up and it was time for ice and stim. I’ve been at ATI for a while but my knee STILL hurts so I can’t really see myself leaving. I miss working hard at Barwis but this hurts!
I kind of feel like a sissy STILL complaining about this but it is a CONSTANT throb! The pain I feel in my knee is like the pain I experienced when I was recovering from surgery. I’ve said before that knee surgery hurts more than having a baby (I should clarify that I had a C-section) but it does! I forgot how much knee surgery hurt until experiencing the pain I feel right now. Brad wrapped the inside of my knee up and it felt really good!