Almost Three Years Ago, I Had Knee Replacement Surgery. It Taught Me Something Important

As usual, I had to go through some pain to learn something

Lawson Wallace
ILLUMINATION
Published in
4 min readMar 21

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Photo by Anna Shvets: https://www.pexels.com/photo/senior-sportsman-stretching-before-training-on-street-5067877/

It was late spring or early summer. I left Odessa Texas on a plane to El Paso. I was escaping Odessa by joining the Navy. I had gone on the Scarsdale Diet to get my weight low enough for Navy guidelines. The thought of…

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Lawson Wallace
ILLUMINATION

63-year-old married guy, I have been writing stories for years, but never submitted or published anything. I write about my successes and failures, everything.