onwards

i had my second-to-last physical therapy session yesterday. next week i "graduate" - more like i'm forced to "graduate," thanks to my health insurance. yesterday, i brought three pairs of crutches to donate since, you know, i don't really need four pairs of crutches lying around the house (one set from my toe surgery, one from my left knee surgery, and two from my first two right knee surgeries. i finally remembered to bring my own crutches to the hospital for my third right knee surgery.) wow, i really am an orthopedic doctor's dream come true. or, er, nightmare, depending on how you think of it. five orthopedic surgeries in my life so far - at least i keep them in business. :)

so i'm kind of sad to be leaving, one because i'm not healed, and two because it's really been an integral part of my life for the last year. i've gotten to know my therapist(s) and aides and even the patients pretty well. for this entire year, it's practically been the same regular patients every time i go in, so we always chat and catch up while staying late and doing our exercises. it's nice because they actually have an understanding of what i'm going through that others don't - especially the regulars.

so it's time to bid adieu to my therapy clinic. i have one last plea in with our HR, but haven't heard back from them for two weeks, so i'm not counting on it. espcecially since i was denied last year.

time to finish out on my own. i've been doing that anyway, so we'll see. six months. onwards i go. (side note: there's a meeting that i have to go to every monday, and the manager who runs the meeting likes to do things fast. so every time after we talk about one issue and close the item, he says, "okay. onwards." every time i hear him say that, i want to break out into song and start singing "onward christian soldier... marching as to war." olivia thinks that i should actually do it one day.)