Because the first time wasn't enough fun

dr: I think you need to seriously consider having surgery on this knee.
me: Do you think any more physical therapy will do anything for me?
dr: Seeing as you have already done physical therapy for this problem, most likely not, but if you would like to try some more, we can most certainly set that up for you and we can re-evaluate you in a couple of months. But, again, I feel that the only options left are to live with the pain for a very long time or undergo another procedure and recover within a year.

fabulous. absolutely fabulous.

So then I call my physical therapist to set up an appointment since I decided to give it another go because hell, why not. I'm talking with the receptionist and she asked me my name and she goes "Elaine, I thought that was you!"

I've been there so freakin much that they know who I am. She sounded like she was talking to an old friend that she hadn't seen in a while. 6 years later I suppose that's the "honor" I get. Not to mention last year when they were not accepting my insurance at the time, the physical therapist gave me a discount and only made me pay my regular copay ($10) and not my percentage of each visit (hundreds of dollars) that I owed him. #1 patient right here...jealous? And that was after the personal assistant to my dr. continued bonding with me 3 years after our first meeting... she is seeing justin timberlake this weekend at the casino- front row tickets. and she is no longer with the father of her son (I noticed the ring was gone, too)

So, another cortisone shot, a physical therapy script, and a surgery talk later... I'm still a crip