Getting Sensitive

Hello most humans and many others,

Well, I finally got a turn at the computer! Missy Linda and Tio Kane have been hogging it lately. They say they have papers due for classes- - -like that's important.

Missy Linda is not in any mood to discuss things with me right now- - -the usual thing around here, it seems to me. She is getting all sensitive these days- - -again, nothing new. This time it is about her leg and foot. (!)

It seems that an increasing number of people at the store, ask Missy Linda about either her foot or her knee. They say something like, "Doesn't your foot or knee hurt because it is crooked like that?" Missy Linda has been aware for most of her life that her knee was crooked causing her to be knock kneed. She had problems with her ankles when she played basketball, possibly because her crooked knee caused her ankle to turn to the inside.

She says she had noticed a grinding noise that her knee has been making for a few years. Sometimes when she would play with the girls down on the floor, it would pop out of place, and she would have to pop it back with a little yell. She never had to answer for it to other people, though.

Although she realizes it is obvious, she is sometimes surprised that so many people seem so willing to tell her what to do about it. There's a coworker who tells her that herbs would help, and another coworker whose dad is a physician who tells her several things that she should do to help. Still another girl at work sing the praises of the chiropractor. The other day, a customer slipped her a note with the name of an orthopedic surgeon.

She says that she is beginning to feel weird about the whole thing. It's not enough that her knee hurts, she whines, she is getting paranoid about people watching her all the time! She says she is not comfortable beinga spectacle. I find that hard to believe, knowing some of the things she does sometimes!