Yesterday, my wife and I ran 15 kilometers in the Hot Chocolate 15K Run in Chicago. I am still alive! My knee is killing me, though. Actually, other than my knee, I feel really good. And as far as the knee goes, I have another doctor’s appointment this Thursday. I’ll let you know how it goes. My gut is that there….

Okay, I’ve actually just spent the last 15 minutes looking at knee images on Wikipedia. I also just had my wife check out this funky ligament-deal that is doing this weird popping thing, when I straighten and bend my leg. Yikes! Some sort of ligament over the lateral meniscus, or maybe something a bit lower – the lateral collateral ligament, which connects the fibula and the femur. (I only know some of this lingo because I’ve been staring at it for 25 minutes now…)

Until the middle of this post, I had no idea how complicated the anatomy of the knee was. This is unbelievably complicated stuff! How on earth the human body has been assembled so well is quite unreal, if you ask me. Even the most complicated automotive engine doesn’t hold a candle to the intricacies of the human body. It just works. It makes you wonder who built it…

Hopefully this new doc will be able to tell me something I don’t already know about my problem knee and help me fix it. No cortisone shots, please.