rootabaga
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To be completely honest, knowing what I now know, I would never go back and fix my knee. After injuring it at 17, as part of an arthrogram procedure (this was before MRI and CT-scan were developed) they injected me with lidocaine. That's when we discovered I was basically allergic to lidocaine; luckily I was in a hospital so when I faded out they were able to keep me alive. (Later I learned that there is something in me that doesn't hold lidocaine in the local tissues, but rather allows it to flow to my arteries which carry it to the heart, with potentially deadly consequences.)And chiming in on this one...
If the Delorean is the actual car that is also a time machine, I'll take that one hands-down. First thing I'd do is go back in time and *not* injure my knee.
Had I not injured my knee, I would have died at 19, which was the first time I had dental work that required a local anesthetic. Lidocaine was the primary (and pretty much still is) local used by dentists, and I'd have gotten that shot right next to those big carotid arteries. As you know, dentists leave you and go do other things while you numb up...and I'd have been quite numb when he returned.
So in all honesty, when I first realized that back in my thirties, whenever my knee bothered me, I would thank the Lord for my bad knee, because absent that, I would have died a very long time ago. That would have gutted my dear mom, who just a few years prior had lost her parents and husband.
So in truth, I'm thankful for my bad knee, and truly it is part of this Happy Thanksgiving.
