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shadowkatPer the PT, I've an irritated or nappy meniscus:
"A meniscus (often misspelled as 'miniscus') is a C-shaped piece of tough, rubbery cartilage in the knee that acts as a shock absorber between your shinbone (tibia) and thighbone (femur). Each knee has two (medial and lateral), cushioning impacts and helping with stability, but they can tear from twisting injuries or age, causing pain, swelling, stiffness, and locking."
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/torn-meniscus/symptoms-causes/syc-20354818
So we're doing knee exercises, and building the muscle around it. He also advises to ice three times a day and not to put too much pressure on it.
[I'm wondering if I need a cane?]
PT: You have a nappy meniscus, it happens to the best of us.
Me: And the only way to heal it is Physical Therapy.
PT: Yup, either that or removing the leg.
At least he has a sense of humor?
***
Watched Buffy S5 episode 5, "No Place Like Home", which oddly, I liked better than Episode 4. (Hmm,as an aside, television writers seem to like annoying characters, and somewhat whiny characters, don't they?)
If Riley got on my nerves in the last episode (he still does in this one, just less so), Dawn really grates. But Dawn is supposed to. We're in Buffy's perspective. Riley gets two scenes, Spike gets one in this episode. Riley's are admittedly brief - just enough to get across that Riley much like Human!Angel can't handle being a boyfriend to the "Slayer" who has super-powers. Weirdly, Xander would have jumped at it. I have a feeling Spike would have been fine with it as well. Xander is far more likable in S5. Xander doesn't understand Riley's issues. (Riley wants to hunt monsters with GI Jane, not with a super-powered slayer who keeps trying to bench him for fear he'll get killed. To be fair to Buffy - she has a point. PTSD big time. (Never Kill a Boy on the First Date? And most likely has weird deja vu with Human!Angel). )
Spike's scene is better than Riley's. He also gets better lines. It's a ten minute scene if that, but Spike makes the most of it. It's the scene with the classic exchange:
Buffy: Spike, what are you doing?
Spike: What do you mean?
Buffy: Why are you here? Standing outside of my house? Five words or less!
Spike: Out. For. A. Walk. Bitch.
She even calls him William in the exchange, which takes him aback. "I don't have time for this William." And she hits him, that's the start of it. Granted she has some tension to work off. She notably hit him before he told her that he was out for a walk. (Hence the Bitch).
After he leaves, she notices all the cigarette butts beneath the tree outside her window. It's played for laughs. The only reason she doesn't dwell on it - is well, she has other issues on the brain? Also, it's worth mentioning that after Angel, Buffy kind of hand waves the whole lurker thing with vampires. Probably figures that's what they do? I mean Angel basically shadowed Buffy for three years before he popped up and revealed himself - and he didn't really? She discovered him trailing her. And then after he leaves town - he pops up in Sunnydale, without telling her, and lurks. So, she's probably used to it?
It's a good episode. And now that I more or less know everything - I understand what the title meant. No Place Like Home - refers to where Glory (the hell-god or the Abomination) wants to go. And Dawn is the "key" to get her there. Neither know it. I like Glory more than most people did. (I honestly found her to be less annoying than the Master, Adam, Caleb). She's kind of the Mean Girl or Harmony with superpowers and a touch insane. She's also scarier than the other big bads - in that she can drive people crazy.
Giles and Anya have better chemistry than she does with Xander, which is odd. Also, I think Tara was in this episode? Blink and you'd miss her?
I didn't realize until now, how little of S5, Tara is actually in. OZ was in more episodes in S3, I think?
Buffy doesn't appear to tell anyone at the end of No Place Like Home, instead she goes home and apologizes to Dawn, realizing that it's not Dawn's fault she's the key and the monks created her in order to hide her from Glory. The Monk doesn't tell Buffy everything - just that they'd made the key flesh, and blood human and sent her to the slayer as the slayer's sister - knowing the slayer would protect her with her life. And that she is an innocent. Also that the key opens a portal which will kill millions if it is opened. And oh, that they built Buffy, her friends, everyone's memories of Dawn. Buffy doesn't wonder if that made her mother sick - since then, everyone would be? There's a lot of little plot holes in their - but you can easily handwave them with - "it's magic" explanation. Which is the conceit of paranormal fantasy series.
Off to bed. I hope.
"A meniscus (often misspelled as 'miniscus') is a C-shaped piece of tough, rubbery cartilage in the knee that acts as a shock absorber between your shinbone (tibia) and thighbone (femur). Each knee has two (medial and lateral), cushioning impacts and helping with stability, but they can tear from twisting injuries or age, causing pain, swelling, stiffness, and locking."
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/torn-meniscus/symptoms-causes/syc-20354818
So we're doing knee exercises, and building the muscle around it. He also advises to ice three times a day and not to put too much pressure on it.
[I'm wondering if I need a cane?]
PT: You have a nappy meniscus, it happens to the best of us.
Me: And the only way to heal it is Physical Therapy.
PT: Yup, either that or removing the leg.
At least he has a sense of humor?
***
Watched Buffy S5 episode 5, "No Place Like Home", which oddly, I liked better than Episode 4. (Hmm,as an aside, television writers seem to like annoying characters, and somewhat whiny characters, don't they?)
If Riley got on my nerves in the last episode (he still does in this one, just less so), Dawn really grates. But Dawn is supposed to. We're in Buffy's perspective. Riley gets two scenes, Spike gets one in this episode. Riley's are admittedly brief - just enough to get across that Riley much like Human!Angel can't handle being a boyfriend to the "Slayer" who has super-powers. Weirdly, Xander would have jumped at it. I have a feeling Spike would have been fine with it as well. Xander is far more likable in S5. Xander doesn't understand Riley's issues. (Riley wants to hunt monsters with GI Jane, not with a super-powered slayer who keeps trying to bench him for fear he'll get killed. To be fair to Buffy - she has a point. PTSD big time. (Never Kill a Boy on the First Date? And most likely has weird deja vu with Human!Angel). )
Spike's scene is better than Riley's. He also gets better lines. It's a ten minute scene if that, but Spike makes the most of it. It's the scene with the classic exchange:
Buffy: Spike, what are you doing?
Spike: What do you mean?
Buffy: Why are you here? Standing outside of my house? Five words or less!
Spike: Out. For. A. Walk. Bitch.
She even calls him William in the exchange, which takes him aback. "I don't have time for this William." And she hits him, that's the start of it. Granted she has some tension to work off. She notably hit him before he told her that he was out for a walk. (Hence the Bitch).
After he leaves, she notices all the cigarette butts beneath the tree outside her window. It's played for laughs. The only reason she doesn't dwell on it - is well, she has other issues on the brain? Also, it's worth mentioning that after Angel, Buffy kind of hand waves the whole lurker thing with vampires. Probably figures that's what they do? I mean Angel basically shadowed Buffy for three years before he popped up and revealed himself - and he didn't really? She discovered him trailing her. And then after he leaves town - he pops up in Sunnydale, without telling her, and lurks. So, she's probably used to it?
It's a good episode. And now that I more or less know everything - I understand what the title meant. No Place Like Home - refers to where Glory (the hell-god or the Abomination) wants to go. And Dawn is the "key" to get her there. Neither know it. I like Glory more than most people did. (I honestly found her to be less annoying than the Master, Adam, Caleb). She's kind of the Mean Girl or Harmony with superpowers and a touch insane. She's also scarier than the other big bads - in that she can drive people crazy.
Giles and Anya have better chemistry than she does with Xander, which is odd. Also, I think Tara was in this episode? Blink and you'd miss her?
I didn't realize until now, how little of S5, Tara is actually in. OZ was in more episodes in S3, I think?
Buffy doesn't appear to tell anyone at the end of No Place Like Home, instead she goes home and apologizes to Dawn, realizing that it's not Dawn's fault she's the key and the monks created her in order to hide her from Glory. The Monk doesn't tell Buffy everything - just that they'd made the key flesh, and blood human and sent her to the slayer as the slayer's sister - knowing the slayer would protect her with her life. And that she is an innocent. Also that the key opens a portal which will kill millions if it is opened. And oh, that they built Buffy, her friends, everyone's memories of Dawn. Buffy doesn't wonder if that made her mother sick - since then, everyone would be? There's a lot of little plot holes in their - but you can easily handwave them with - "it's magic" explanation. Which is the conceit of paranormal fantasy series.
Off to bed. I hope.
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Date: 2025-12-11 04:58 pm (UTC)