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Saw the surgeon and the surgeon's assistant, both of whom are absolutely delighted at my range of motion, the latter of whom assured me that the knee would go on panging and feeling hot and not be as strong as before for another six weeks. Patience, patience. Surgeon says I must keep walking as much as possible and I did not say Dude it's winter and you can see I still have to use a walker. Got my taxi to drop me off at Fiesta and walked home, and though Sunday's snow has gone from most houses, the two places where it wasn't were not fun to push the rollator over. Hoping the bicycle machine will count for something instead.

I need new sports bras because the ones I have are all stretched out. Had to order online and ordered the same size as the last I bought some time in the oughties when I was thirty pounds heavier than now. Had not realized that one was a hook and eye closing, which was bad enough, but it's also two sizes too small. The other fits, barely. So have ordered again, this time making sure it's cotton and not nasty lycra, and I hope have ordered large enough. They don't do cup size with these, just band, so I don't have my hopes up.

Rain and snow tomorrow and heavy winds. Shall cab it to physiotherapy and back, and not walk anywhere.

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I’m glad that your recovery is going well from a clinical perspective - hopefully it’ll soon feel better from your perspective as well.

Also, thank you very much for the Amazon voucher!

And now, of course, the hypochondriac reaction starts: what's that little twinge at the top of my calf is it a blood clot what do I do if it's a blood clot can't go to A&E the hospitals are overflowing with covid patients I'll catch covid and who'll look after me etc etc.

There's a bit in Lucretius' On the Nature of Things (basically a swipe at all organized religion and thus very modern) where he says 'and religion makes some people so afraid of death that they kill themselves.' Even 50 years ago I was much struck by this insight into the anxiety-prone mind.

I've found that most clinical coders I know (including myself) get particularly anxious/nervous about some specific area of illness, once they've had to read up about it for work purposes - whether it's back ache, or psychiatric problems, or shortness of breath, or cardiac, or arthritis, or . . .

A common problem, I think. After all, so many fatal diseases and conditions have commonplace symptoms. Like omicron/ allergies/ the common cold.

Exactly.