Twentysome years ago, signed up for the Marine infantry, in the reserves a year before starting into college at the same time. The attitude of the Corps for infantry reserves is, we only have you for a few days a month, so we're gonna flog ya hard to keep you up-to-snuff. Lots of 20-mile humps w/ not-so-light rucks and gear, over not-so-smooth terrain. Fivish years later, while on my college's fencing team, I was having some knee problems, and my family practitioner happened to have been an orthopedic surgeon in the Army during Vietnam. Finally he just out and said, if I didn't get out of the Marines, I'd be arthritic by the time I was 30. I'd had a shift in direction, no longer planning to be an officer anymore, became a geologist (happy move). So, I finished out my six and parted ways w/ the Corps, on to grad school.
Bought me better than a decade... My knees would creak and pop, but nothing startling. Until this past year, as I've turned 40, my right knee now has gotten 'crunchy'. Not through 'normal' range of movement, walking or sitting, but, if I squat down to lift something off of the ground using my legs (keeping my back straight!), my knee is very audible, like you're wadding up cellophane. A couple of months ago, my physician took a set of x-rays to have a baseline on-hand, to go forward with... + + + And, this kinda ties back to the crank discussion, so I'm torn about posting this question here, or in the crank-thread... Think I'll put it over there.... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/V_1y598mgCkJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
