Knee surgery

[OakLeaf]

Catrin, hope the extra money will be a small offset of everything you've had to go through ....

I think about how bad it gets and then consider what it would be like if I didn't occasionally have the extra resources to purchase what I need to stay active (trying to do so in regular athletic shoes is almost crippling). It makes me think of other women with similar problems who simply don't have the funds for it - ever - and how easy the couch option then becomes. If everything hurts, at what point do you just give up?

I think about that every single time I get on the table for the hours of bodywork I get every week, almost none of which is covered by insurance. My LMT talks a lot about how he sees people walking around and knows he can help them. It makes me super sad and super angry, actually, that good care is accessible only to those who can afford it, especially when you think about how some people want others to have even less access to care.

Of course if most of my injuries had been competently treated when they happened, I probably wouldn't need the hours and hours I do now. And it's not an unrelated discussion, that there are so many licensed practitioners out there who really have no clue what they are doing, but they stay in business because insurance pays them and because people who are in pain or other types of discomfort seek out whatever treatment they can find.

Sigh.