back to jane.....

ok, so....so i walked on the treadmill when i got home from taking my mother to a medical appt....and the british murder mystery video was scratched, and kept stopping and starting....and i put it away and loaded the jane austen book club instead.....seemed a better choice than murder, anyway.....i needed to walk to blow off steam from the medical appt.....i startled my mother by going into her surgeon appt with her.....and by inquiring about physical therapy......but my boldness was unnecessary, as the surgeon told my mother that she has no need for either hip replacements or knee replacements...and that her arthritis has not gotten to the bone-on-bone stage....and he not only prescribed physical therapy, he prescribed water aerobics.......which she used to do when she first moved to town......and he gave her a cortisone shot.....which seemed to mollify her, and by the time we got back home she was walking better......the scenario of serial-complainer mother and skeptical daughter go to the doctor could be a sub-plot theme for an updated austenesque novel.....