Because as she was adjusting my crutches and showing me how to use them for post-surgery tomorrow, she said something like this:

You want to make sure you have about a 30 degree bend in your elbow so your triceps take all the weight and my…you do have some triceps don’t you?

Why yes…yes I do.

She’s a wonderful human being…a fine young American…and she knows how to make an anxious older guy feel damn good. That’s natural talent dammit and it deserves respect.