Darius - you are such a sweetheart... usually I run from the camera though, not gonna lie, lol. Let me also say - thank you for being one of our many brave service people! Being a marine is a proud thing and I am grateful to you for the service! And wow... Okinowa I have heard some amazing things on culture there... lots of history.
sheramama - of course I don't mind, I'm an open book. She is going for surgery on her right knee. She has severe polyarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (genetic) that effects all but 2 joints in her body. Well it is also an immune deficiency disease, with that being said, it caused her to be susceptible to lots of other things...in her case osteoarthritis in that knee and osteo-necrosis (growth of dead bone). We have tried all the meds to help it with no success, so now the last resort is to go in and scrape the dead bone (or as much as possible) out. There are no gel packs left in her knee, so she is total dead bone on dead bone. We are hoping after rehab this will provide her with some kind of pain relief

DD is looking forward to it, it's been the only prospect of being able to be "somewhat normal" 15 yr old as far as pain levels.