oh yeah

I remembered one thing I wanted to say.......so my dad got his knee replaced a little over a month ago..he's doing well btw, went ice fishing a few days ago (an exciting mainer activity, for those of you unfamiliar with the sport, vaguely reminiscent of watching grass grow...) so he's doing well. Oh yeah, my point. He was in a serious car accident in his 20s, I guess he broke his leg pretty badly, I'm not sure of the details...anyways, in talking to mom yesterday she told me that the surgeons discovered the day of the surgery that his one leg was approximately one inch shorter then the other...which, I'm assuming, is from his accident. So instead of the doctor doing his job after he had his cast off in his 20s, he had to go around with one leg shorter than the other for almost 40 years. There's no doubt in my mind that that is the main reason he had to have his knee replaced. Had he seen a competent orthopedic surgeon originally, or a chiropractor who actually checks for leg lengths, they would have been able to have given him orthopedics which would have prevented this surgery. Granted, his surgery was probably in the late 60s, and there's a good chance they didn't know how important it was to have even leg lengths...but still, it kinda sucks he had to go through that surgery unnecessarily