I worked with Brad on Monday. As I was getting onto the table, I told him and Matt that if the Eagles don’t make it to the Super Bowl, it will be dumb! All of my teams lost last weekend!
Once I was on the table, Luba came over to talk to Brad. She told me that she was leaving and she told me to, “Hold it (ATI) down with all of these boys.” I told her I would as I looked around and noticed who was there as Brad put my leg in traction. There was Brad, Larry, Matt, and another client. I totally could handle this! I grew up with four older brothers!
As Brad unsnapped my pants and pulled my compression sack down, I told him how my knee was feeling. I haven’t worked with him since after my Tenex. As I was telling him about my, “Shank hole” Larry yelled from the other end of the room that I need to find another analogy. We laughed as Brad looked at my leg and pointed to the, “Shank hole” and asked if I was talking about, “this little slit.” I told him that I was and how badly it hurt and how it felt like it was the size of a quarter and that a screwdriver was stabbed into my shin.
I’m not sure how the conversation started but we (the four guys in me) talked about the playoffs and the upcoming Super Bowl and then we started talking about Tom Brady. I told them that I wasn’t a fan even though I went to Michigan. I just don’t like him. Matt told me it was because I was hating on greatness. I laughed and agreed.
Brad told me that my tone was not too bad and he kneaded my shin mostly. I kind of winced at times and he asked me if it was tender and I nodded. When he was finished, he told me that it was time for ice and stim but I told him that ice would make me too cold and that the last time Larry just did an ultrasound. Larry started doing that and kind of marveled at my football knowledge. He told me that I should be a bookie or something. I told him that, “You would think I would be good at fantasy which I am not!”
I’ve played on Draft Kings a few times and at the beginning of the second quarter once, I was up seven dollars. At the end, I finished 27,000 or something. I told him that I enjoyed the game and the NFL Network.
My knee is really starting to get better. I wish it was all the time but there are still times when it aches and my knee pops out of it socket. I will say, the pain isn’t like it was before surgery and the further I get away from my surgery date now that my Tenex is completed, it’s starting to feel better. I just wish I could trust that because then there are days like yesterday and this morning. The pain can still stop me in my tracks. I will talk to Dr. Moore more about that on February 16th. In the meantime, I really like coming to ATI! It helps my knee to feel better AND I have great conversations with everybody!