Academic view of student behaviour

First year - we tell you what to do.

Second year - We tell you what we want done

Third Year - (Placement) Someone else tells you what they want done, and if you are lucky, sends you on training courses.

Final year - You tell us what you are going to do, and we mark the process.

New Knee

I went to see the Doctor today, after that little upset with my knee collapsing on me a week or so ago. He says that he thinks it is time to have the knee replacement done. With any luck it will last 15 years, or until I am 78, and by then technology will have advanced. He is writing to the consultant that has to OK the procedure, who i will see in about a month. Then there is about 13 weeks to wait for the op. I came home quite pensive, wondering if I am doing the right thing. maybe I should have held on for a while longer. If I hadn't given up the glucosamine pills in January, would I be in this state now? I don't think the gel that I am using instead is as 'potent'.

Since then I have been working in the garden, becasue I am still very active. That's the sort of thing that makes me wonder if I should have it done or hold on. But then a twist in the wrong way, or putting that foot down heavily, and the pain shoots through my knee, and I am definitely up for it.

Of course, on the way home from the Doctors I stopped in at the bike shop and ordered a new seat post!. That says something.