I had difficulty falling to sleep yesterday night because it was raining and that made my body and ESPECIALLY my knee hurt a whole lot! When I awakened this morning, I didn’t even know it was daylight savings. As I was waiting for my Mom to come by, my knee popped out! It’s been one year, 10 months, and nine days since my surgery and I can’t believe that I am still dealing with this!
So, as my Mom gets to my house and gets me into my wheelchair before I ask her to pull my ankle up and so she slowly raised my right foot up as I put the back of my chair down until I heard the loudest crack I have heard to date as it popped back into place. Surprisingly, I didn’t cry at the pain but I groaned and closed my eyes.
Sean was up and watching the Pistons when my Mom started saying it. It was either Sean or I who asked the time and she looked at the clock on my stove and asked, “Do you want the real time or the pretend time?” Sean was confused by that question and looked at his phone to get the answer. I told him how my Mom asked that question every day for two weeks that we were in Texas and in a different time zone.
I think I was about seven years old then and so I just answered with, “Pretend.” The, “Real” time was the time that it was in our normal time zone. Sean tried explaining to her that there is only real time but I stopped him and told him that she has been doing it for almost 30 years. She’s not going to change it now. Hi guess that daylight savings time really only affected me when I worked and had to get up at a certain time but now, since I don’t, it really doesn’t matter. That really sucks if/when you think about it!