Bruce Lerner

Ok. Three days away and I'm not nearly done with the history. Guess I'll just have to add another real-time entry. I've practiced on the crutches, picked up the Oxycodone, filled in the WOMAC questionaire. The unloader brace has arrived but won't be fitted until Thursday at 3:30p - talk about cutting that close. I have attached a 3.5 year old view of the knees. More to follow.

Last Friday I was fitted for an unloader knee brace.

My awareness of issues with my knees came in March of 1998 a couple of days before my 1st Dan Test (Tae Kwon Do).

"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else." - James M. Barrie

Other quotes by J. M. Barrie here.

I'm going to provide some information about my battle with osteoarthritis of the knees

"Your own experience is grotesquely flawed."
Dr. Steven Novella, 8/20/2009 at the The Connecticut Drinking Skeptically Meetup in regard to one's ability to trust their memory and even perception.

“The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”
Joan Didion

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
- Writer/critic A. H. Weiler.

It's nice to know that Slow Children at Play eventually grow up to be Slow Men at Work.
George Hrab, July 27, 2009 on Twitter (@georgehrab)

I ended up in a hallway conversation yesterday about ways to describe the various levels of of systems of systems and scale. Today this link arrived on twitter (via @MsInformation and @donnakenlin). http://www.nikon.com/about/feelnikon/universcale/index_f.htm
Coincidence - I think so. But it still registers as CoolStuff.