Pregnant Knee!

Three days ago I woke up and to my surprise I discovered that my knee looked pregnant. This could not be, as it has been with me always and has never left my sight. Except of course, when I was asleep and had my eyes closed. I hear some people can sleep with their eyes open, but I am not so fortunate. I eyed it suspiciously and carefully palpated the area with my fingers. It was soft, not firm as a pregnant woman’s belly and it did not hurt at all. But what else could it be? I have never had anything such as this before. I thought that if I ignore it, maybe it will just go away. Two days later it was even bigger, but it was still soft. That was good news. At least I would not have to be worried about having a little third knee hanging around to bother me all the time.


I got up the following morning and it was bigger yet, so I decided that I had better go see the Doctor before this thing exploded and made a big mess. I do not speak very good Spanish yet, so it is a challenge trying to communicate with the doctor’s secretary. After hand mimes and strange sounds she said a couple of words I understood, quatro ( 4) and tardes (afternoon). Okay I got it. I came back at four that afternoon to see the doctor.

Fortunately the doctor spoke very good English. I showed him my pregnant looking knee and he got out these big syringes with even bigger needles sticking out of them. That’s when I knew this was not going to be very much fun. It wasn’t either. He stuck those big needles into my pregnant looking knee and drew out what looked like diluted goat’s blood. The good part was that my knee no longer looked pregnant. It almost looked normal. The doctor sent the diluted goat’s blood to the laboratory to see what it is and why it picked on me. In five days I have to go back to find out. The total bill was about sixty five dollars and that included everything, even my next visit, because it is part of the same ailment. Here the insurance companies do not control the doctors, and the people do not sue them either. As a result of these simple facts, the medical services here are affordable. The people in the USA should take note of this fact and get rid of their controllers---the insurance companies!