Thanks for the good wishes.
It actually occurs more with women than men. It's not life threatening. It's just a royal pain in the butt once it starts really locking up. Until then, you live with it.
Wish her luck on the next knee. Today's orthopedics do wonderful things. Now I've got a hip pain that my son in law quickly diagnosed as "trochanteric bursitis". It's an inflammation of the lubricating sack on the outside of the bump on your thigh bone. I did a little gardening and came away with that. It was actually more painful than the finger surgery. Go figure. Getting old has its downsides. Once I found out that it's "just" bursitis, I relaxed. My hip and knee joints are doing quite well, or at least that's what I've been bragging about. I didn't want to have to eat my words. Bursitis is an inflammation. Heck! I used to have bursitis in my shoulder when I was in my teens and 20s. I can handle this.
Got to run some errands and then I'll get into the shop... finally. I'll have to chase all the cellar spiders away who like to take over when the air is quiet in a space.
