The Knees That Didn't Work
There's nothing in our bodies that is not connected with a long list of other things in our body, all of which are connected to even more of our body parts. The old spiritual that said the knee bone was connected to the ankle bone, etc., etc., etc. had it right, and whatever happens to one bone affects all the others. But the connections go waaaay beyond our bones . Let me tell you a story. A drunk driver slammed into my parents' car when I was a baby. Doctors pronounced me to be just fine, but I wasn't even close to fine. For one thing, my thyroid gland didn't work. For another, neither did my adrenal glands. When those two major players aren't in the game, you're in trouble. Big trouble. And all those connections that nobody knows about come into play. By the time I was twelve, my knees didn't work well. If I joined the neighborhood gang for a friendly game of softball, one trip around the bases was all it took for me to end up with knees the size of larg