I walked in about 10 minutes early for my 9 o'clock appointment.  Worrying how Spud was going to react being into a new house by himself!  And hoping that the Goddess Anu that he wasn't tearing up the house or eating any socks that may have been left out.  (He has actually popped out full tube socks if he can get a hold of them!)

I sat down had a cup of Java while waiting for my therapest and counted 4 older folks walk in.  And I am not talking my parents age here (60s); I am talking in their 70s, 80s, and 90s!  One middle age guy about in his late 40s and then there was me the only 30 something year old besides the therapest!  And then they mistook me for a 20 something year old by asking me how my college classes where going and when I said I am not in college they go oh you graduated already!?  Hum no!

So Erin, my therapest got after me because I wasn't doing all the exersies every day and made a snide little comment:  "Well it isn't MY knee that isn't screwed up now is it!"  Which she promptly got pist when I turned around and said "Well it isn't MY fault that I have a life and you don't!"  Then I got a blow by farking blow of the dayum NE Husker game this past weekend because she had to JUST prove to me that she had a life and went to the game because SHE had season tickets.  Again I torked her off and had the rest of the therapest in stitches because they are all IA Hawkey fans when I then spouted off:  "OoooooooO!  You wasted a whole day driving 2 plus hours to get to your seats an hour early and then spent a day in the stands watching football!  Wow soooooooooooooo NOT impressed! I, myself, took my kids to taekowndo, picked up  new dog, went grociery shopping and spent the rest of the day with my husband!  And that night instead of drinking the evening away I had dinner made for me and talked to my friends on the phone!  And Sunday, while you were recouping from your Husker Hangover, I painted my kitchen, moved things around, hung with my auntie and uncle for about 20 minutes when they brought down some pumpkins from my cousin Tammy and made lunch plans for this week to meet a few different friends!"

Erin realized that even though I currently carry a NE Husker purse, I am NOT a Husker fan nor any football fan.  She was also told very polietly by me that I could do with out HER snide little comments about my knee because while she was most likely IN school learning how to be a physcial therapest I was in the process of physcial therapy with my left knee and trust me it doesn't really matter if you do all the exersies every day because when your knees are farkered the way mine are it really isn't worth it!  Her boss the man therapest pulled her aside and said listen:  "Your not dealing with a highschooler whose life is ruined in their eyes by missing a sports season.  She already has done that if you have read her records.  Your also not dealing with an older person whose mobility is at stake here.  She is aware that when she gets older she is looking at total knee replacements and eventual wheelchair here.  As long as her numbers, mobility, and range of motion is where needs to be at lay off of her!" 

After that, Erin and I got along just fine. After our session in the room I got put out in the main area of the "gym".  Where I was bombared by the smells of bengay and that smell all old people have that nobody can actually put a name too!  While I was on the fan bike, I had Knee Replacement Granny on the other one chittering about how she is missing her Bridge club.  In the middle of us I had Hip Replacement Granddaddy, bitching about how this was a waste of time and DAYUMIT he could be out on his boat fishing!  Over on the arm pullyes, I had Rotater Cuff Grandpa going to town on the pulleyes and bragging how his job is in for a lawsuite!  And all the while I was being bombarded by questions by them:  "What is wrong with you?  Well why did you go and have surgery done if you really didn't need it?  Young woman do you realize you have a GREEN DRAGON on your calf!  Why Mom!  Look at her right calf she has a HEART on that one!  Erin was laughing her ass off and promplty pointed out if they look at the back of my neck i have more ink!  Knee Replacement Granny about had an aploxy I tell you especially when Mr. Knee REplacement Granny spouted off just when the 40 some year old man came out of his room to work on the arm pulleys from an injury from the Workplace:  "Mom, I bet ya she has her *said in a loud stage whisper* down there pierced!"  I burst out laughing Middleaged Workplace Injury looked shocked and Knee REplacement Granny about fell off the bike and had an aploxy I tell ya!  All the therapest were laughing their asses off with me!  And Mr. Knee REplacement Granny was looking at all of us like we were crazy!

Middleaged Workplace injury stood there for a minute and walked over to me where by that time I was sitting next to Mr. Knee Replacement Granny and said he was pretty impressed that a 20 something year old could deal with what comes out of older peoples mouths when they aren't use to things!  First I thanked him for the complement and said I just turned Dirty Thirty this year and the shocking things that come out of Geratrics mouths is nothing new to me because I use to work as a CNA!

Hanging with the Geratrics this morning was actually quite fun once my therapest realized I don't just fall in line with what she wants!