Heredity

Sometimes, heredity can deal a bad hand.

My older son has my knees.  That's NOT a good thing.  I took him to an orthopaedic surgeon today and apparently, he has some of the same problems in his knees that I have in mine.

Fortunately, his knee problems are still in early stages and we can address the problems by getting some custom (pronounced "expensive") orthotics made for him and he's going to do a month of physical therapy where they show him exercises that will help his knees out.  Hopefully, they won't get as bad as mine are for a good long time.

He COULD have gotten an excuse from his P.E. class this year as well, but he decided that he only wanted to be excused from doing lunges and squats and other deep knee bending exercises.

Of course, I can blame my father and his father for MY knee problems.

Yes, sometimes heredity can deal a bad hand.