Remembered my pedometer today! Well, I had it on yesterday but never actually made it out of the house because work went wonky and I fired up the computer at 7:30 instead of the scooter... Anyway, lunchtime rolled around and I decided I really needed to go for a walk, those 1700 steps were nothing, plus, it is gorgeous outside and I could use some vitamin D.
So, I took a walk.
A couple of blocks into it my knee gave out. This is my left knee and it has been through some stuff. At the tender age of 40 and a few days my knee and I found out that, despite the engineer's best intentions, knees do, in fact, bend backwards. They don't like it, they protest loudly, yet they will do it when inertia is involved. So, this knee has no ACL, the meniscus was torn in 3 places and later, mostly, removed, it creaks, it pops, it hurts, sometime it goes out. At that moment I realized I had a few options: turn around and go back to the office; stop, grab some food and go back' stop and rest; keep walking, only a little slower. ANy guesses which one I picked?? Really, any??
I kept walking, because ultimately, that's what I do, what most of us do, we just keep going. I was aware of the limitation, squared up my shoulders, held my head high, made very clear choices about the steps I was taking, did not limp or favor that knee for fear of having the other one join it in pain and just kept going.
It's what I do
And, I was rewarded for it. I got a lovely stroll through Yerba Buena Gardens, another 3K steps on the pedometer, sparkles in the sidewalk, some contemplative time and then lunch in the Sun. All of which I would have missed if I gave up and just turned back.
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