“I hesitated, knowing what would happen next. He had finished an examination of my knees that showed a normal range of motion. Now he was about to find out how bad the cartilage really was. I lowered myself carefully. My knees made a thick, wet crunching noise as they bent. The ugly sound embarrassed me. He didn’t say anything. A few minutes later, I was seated beside his desk, passionately telling him about my commitment to healing. He listened without comment, then bluntly delivered his opinio...n: “Your knees will never get better.” My best hope was to arrest their decline to avoid full-blown arthritis in a few years. That took my breath away. “Never” sounded like a death sentence. My life had become thoroughly miserable. Every day my knees hurt. They burned so badly that I sometimes fantasized about hacking off my kneecaps with a butcher knife. I ducked social events after work, fearful of the pain from sitting or standing too long. It was too depressing to imagine that they would never improve, no matter what I did.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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