At the age of ninety, Bluey’s knee was the subject of much medical interest.
Footballers going off the field in agony and facing a full knee reconstruction are a regular feature of sporting news each week.  Their loss of income and mobility is certainly significant and it can also mean medical procedures many years later. However, they are young men, nothing like my Dad, and Bluey’s knee is the stuff of legends.
I wrote this story nine years ago, and given his peaceful passing yesterday, on January 16, 2018, a few weeks short of his 100th birthday, it’s a good time to retell it.
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Bluey’s knee had just collapsed, while I was away.
Bluey is my Dad, lives with me and I was away overseas when he had a severe fall because the knee had just simply collapsed. I returned from my trip in a wheelchair, to find him on crutches. Within a couple of days, we were off to see his surgeon to [Read more…] about Bluey’s knee – Fully reconstructed at age 90.