Even as I wrote those words, I kept wanting to say, "knock on wood" because I thought this knee was getting better about three times before. After each, it had a nasty relapse. Yesterday, I went to the orthopedist whose name was Dr. Doctor which I find funny and he leaned on my knee in an effort to pop something back in in case it was misaligned. This hurt very much. But, I guess it worked because I can stand up now. I still have some pain but nothing like before. In fact, if I'm really careful and sit very well which is hard in my old chair because it's broken there is no pain in my knee whatsoever. I know this is not the end of this process although I wish it was. Tomorrow, I start physical therapy to try to get my knee back to normal. Well, normal for it which is not normal for everyone else because I have cerebral palsy. But, I'm kind of enthused about the whole process. I might actually be able to go to my college reunion picnic and, more importantly to me, my honorary niece's dance recital.

But just when everything health wise was looking up, other things in my life started to go wrong. Of course! One, a website I work for accused me of plagiarizing which I've never done and never would do. Two, one of my assistants needed the rest of the week off as she's being evicted. Three, another one of my assistants possibly has pneumonia. Four, the company that pays my assistants mistakenly, they say, confused one person's time sheet with another person's and paid one person twice and the other person not at all. Now, they have to go in the first women's account and retrieve the second person's money. I'm having them send me copies of the timesheets in question to make sure this is what really happened because I have a suspicion that it is not due to the fact that the first person, who's very honest and I've never had a problem with, didn't tell me about it. I'm sure she would have if she had gotten a double paycheck. I think that maybe they are just claiming that that happened when what really happened was that they forgot to put in the second person's time sheet at all. We'll see what we see.

Today is also the day of finding lost things. I found my writing notebook, four missing library books, and an extra box of gloves that my assistants use to take care of me. I'm supposed to be getting a new shipment of gloves tomorrow, but I don't know as my supplies has not been that forthright in the past.

Why does it seem that when one thing works out, another or several others, goes awry? At least I'm glad that some of my assistants can cover the times when others need help.

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I haven't been here in awhile. It's true. So, just to catch you all up this is what's been going on. I went to the ER on Sunday again because my leg wouldn't straighten out and other people couldn't get it to straighten out either. Finally, the doctor had to give me a shot of like really hard core pain killer (even harder than the stuff I've been taking) to make it behave. Then, they increased my dosage of pain killer. Every four hours without fail except when I'm sleeping. That's five pills a day sometimes and always four. That's more narcotics than I've ever been on in my whole life. I can't wait to see the orthopedist next week. For the past two days, I've been up and around pretty well and getting work done.

I've decided to try to enter this poetry contest from Pavement Saw Press. Now, my only job is to figure out what I want to send them. It's due by August 15th. I have two months. I really need to get some publication credits in before I apply for the Amy Lowell Fellowship in 2012 which I really feel could make my literary career if I got it. I'm also going to submit to this new radical political poetry magazine I was made aware of. I signed up for another paid to write site, and I'll let you know how it goes. They have a $5.00 signing bonus. The payout is $20.00. I finally made $3.00 here and that's a good thing. Only took me since October, but I haven't really paid as much attention to here as I should have.

In other news, all plans for the extraction of my friend from his house in Tennessee are going well. I guess I'll spend the first week of July in various offices with him getting him services. That's what I was really born to do. I'm just not as good at it as other people. However, as he says he doesn't know the other people but he knows me. I wonder if my friends went through this when they had to do the same thing with me. I really must thank them again if it was this difficult.

Goodnight all. I'll try to check in tomorrow.

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I should, after this entry, break three dollars here. It's been a long road to one third payout but it's been fun too. I like posting here because I don't always have to be the activist in the wheelchair if I don't feel like it. On a lot of my other blogging sites, that's the persona i present so that's what they expect. It's hard to fill that role 24 hours a day 365 days a year. Sometimes, I'd like to talk about other stuff or just have fun blogging about nonsense. But people on my other sites are expecting what they're expecting and as they say the customer is always right. End of rant. Thank you for listening.

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1. I'm back from Boston and still single. Although, she's my friend.

2. My knee is acting up again. So much that I even called the orthopedist, which is highly unlikely if you know me at all. The last time that I saw an orthopedist about my knee, the knee was never the same. Of course, this time I'll actually be in charge of the process instead of my parents so all should go better.

3. My cat ripped a hole in my pants this morning. I am not happy.

4. I have about a million loads of laundry to do. It will keep my PCA busy while I'm at the emergency dentist's office with my other friend.

5. I'm really looking forward to therapy tomorrow. I have a bunch of stuff to say.

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This the refferal link for post parker- http://www.postparker.com//index.php?ref=cripfemme; they are a real site. You earn between one and 7 cents a post. I posted 20 posts (all answers) and earned 29 cents. That's about 1.5 cents a post. Today I'm going to start some discussions and see if you earn more money that way. The site is fun!

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I joined a new writing site. They say they are going to pay between 1 and 7 cents per post. I wrote 20 posts because they have good subjects for me to write about- arts and books, especially. That means I should earn between 20 cents and $1.40 tomorrow if they are legit. If so I'll post it here.

I've had a long day, I got a new remote at the cable company and then I tried to get my wheelchair fixed. However, the part was too big. Ugh! Now I need to meet the cute girl in my old chair, but it's better than not hanging out at all and missing pride.

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