Everyone Has a Book In Them

I am convinced that everybody has at least one good book in them. That is to say that everyone has enough stories to at least write one good book (if not more). I have been trying to write this one good book forever. It's harder than it sounds. The one thing I did do though, was come up with a good title. My book will be called "Crying In The Closet", because I do some of my best crying in the closet. It will be based on my life using stories from all the things that sent me to the closet to cry. They aren't all sad stories, we do cry for happy things sometimes. But the problem is ...... that's all I've come up with, the title. In fact, I've come up with a few titles. I guess I'm just a title author. Not all of them for books I would write though. Some are for books I think others should write. Like my daughter.
Sara is 26 and has 2 children and lives in the Pocono mountains with her boyfriend Ryan. I think her book should be "I've Had Enough of Reality, I'm Moving Back To Boca". She is definitly not a "mountain" girl. She'll run to the grocery store in her Uggs and her Juicy Couture bag. I keep telling her she needs to write a book. It reminds me of Green Acres. She has no idea what I'm talking about, she's never seen Green Acres.
A good book for my boyfriend Jimmy is "I'd Love You Even If You Had A Hole In Your Head". This title came to me from something Sara said once. She said, "Mom, Jimmy would love you even if you had a hole in your head". I know she was supporting Jimmy, but something about me with a whole in my head just didn't give me the sense of love I was counting on. But still, a good title.
Another good book title would be, "Did I Tell You The One About .............. ", for my boss who is always telling me stories about his life. And of course, like a good employee I sit transfixed while I hear the one about the frat boys for the third time. So, I think he should put all his stories in a book you see. Win, win for everyone.
I know I'll never write that book. But it's ok. I get to write here. But if someone ever needs a title, hey, I've got a million of them.

Knee Surgery

Let me start off by saying that I am new to blogging and that this is my first blog. I recently had arthroscopic knee surgery, four weeks ago, and was looking for someone online to commiserate with. I just wanted to know if anyone else out there was going through the same things. Since I didn't find anyone, I thought I would just start my own post and see if anyone else jumps in. And anyway, I like to write and this seemed like a perfect place.
Ever since I was little, I've been playing some kind of sport. The first knee injury I can remember was when I was about 4 years old and I was adamant about learning how to ride a bicycle. So I took my two wheeler (without the training wheels)and headed out to the gravel driveway to teach myself. Needless to say, I had so many cuts and scrapes on my knees that the mercurichrome (remember that!) completely covered my knee caps. But I learned how to ride.
After that, I remember falling from trees and neighbors railings trying to keep up with the dares from neighborhood kids. In the summer we would play kickball and stickball in the streets. You really couldn't slide into bases, but you did alot of crashing into cars. And then, the ultimate game............. dodge ball. Now I'm not blaming my degenerating knees on dodgeball, but you have to admit, it is a rough sport.
The last twenty years though, I've been playing alot of tennis. There were a few years when my children were small, that I played six days a week. I was on one women's league, subbed on another, had my weekly clinic, team practice and a social game or two. I did this for years. in Florida we play all year long too! That combined with the gym (aerobics, spinning) and jogging with the dog, it's no wonder that at 51 I needed arthroscopic surgery to repair a medial meniscus tear. While in there looking around, what the surgeon thought was a nick in my articular cartilage on the MRI was actually arthritis because there was no articular cartilage left.
Needless to say, the advice after surgery was no more tennis. As I left his office crying my eyes out and feeling very sorry for myself, I thought that this can't be the end. I've heard of plenty of people playing with cartilage problems. So you see, that is the reason for this post. "Hey all you people out there with no cartilage, tell me how you are. " Do you play tennis? I'd like to find out how others are making it after surgery.
I am going to PT and walking in the pool. Today I'm trying the eliptical at the gym. Like I said, it's been four weeks. Can I start jogging now?