We interrupt these updates with an update.

I had planned on getting this blog up to speed on all the areas of my life, but life itself was interrupted.

Two days before my last post, I aggravated my knee injury. For those who don't know, I dislocated my patella (kneecap) in 2006. Since then, I've aggravated the injury from time to time, but I always get back to normal after a couple of days of rest.

This time I went two weeks and really felt that it was only getting worse. After leisurely walking around for a couple of hours on my vacation, I started feeling shooting pains in my ankle. My breaking point was two days later during an exercise in karate that had me walking out of the class in tears.

I scheduled an appointment with the local physiotherapist and walked out of her office feeling more confident that this would be the last time I have to go through this. She discussed my assessment with me (it's amazing how many physiotherapists don't) and set up a plan that I feel is truly going to get me strong enough to start some real physical activity. Then I can start to shed the weight that is causing the stress on my joints in the first place.

There you have it, a little side track from the bigger picture. We will return to our regularly scheduled updates after a short message from our sponsor...