Grasping sparrow tail.

We have been doing Tai Chi.

Chinese medicine.

The pain that we so fervantly feared was Something Awful has been diagnosed as a pinched nerve and on the trip "back east" we had six acupunture treatments - three for our knee and three for the Something Awful pain. Our knee is so much better than it was before the injury - both knees are excellent now and there has been a lot of celebratory running up of stairs.

The Something Awful pain is less of a bother now that we know it doesn't actually mean much - it is misplaced pain - a mistake. It is not telilng us anything real. And it's much less now, after acupuncture, and I have exercises for it that are working well.

I (Trouble) love our Chinese doctor. He's not allowed to call himself a doctor, but he is much more like a true healer than any western doctor I know. We adore him. After all, he is Mr Takes The Pain Away.

Hah.