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I am having knee surgery in 18 days, barring illness. (Sick people, stay away! I do not want to have to reschedule surgery.) This gives me a rather horrible hollow feeling in the pit of my stomach when I think about it, which I try not to. After surgery, I'll be going through physical rehabilitation for about nine months before I can do much of anything. I'll be on crutches for a while, and then with a cane and knee brace, and so on. There's a lot of stuff I just won't be able to do. I'm trying to think of what I should do while I still can. This is hindered by the fact that I can't do anything crazy like go hiking, or even to the zoo--the biggest problem that I'm still having with my knee is that it tweaks out and swells up pretty easily, and the less swelling pre-surgery, the better the recovery. So I can't do anything that involves a lot of walking or strenuous knee-involving physical activity.

If you were going to pretty much lose the easy use of your legs in 18 days, what would you do?

I'm still thinking on my list. Free things that I can stop doing if it bothers my knee are under consideration.
* Go out to eat, someplace interesting
* Visit the MIA.
* Use a library pass to visit one of the other places it gets free tix to (Mill City Museum?).
* Meander through one of the Asian grocery stores.
* Walk along the Mississippi River (dubious).
* Go to the Mall of America (dubious).
* Go to IKEA (somewhat dubious, but it's sort of a cultural experience--certainly couldn't do both of the above).

And no, I can't throw a pre-surgery party, because I know that all the sick people would come, and that would be bad.

Of course, the day before surgery I get to go and browse through the grocery store and pick up all manner of random weird and interesting foods. I don't usually go into grocery stores, so I tend to go a little crazy when I do, and it's a treat.

Of course, if I keep working seven days a week, I might not be able to do any of these things.