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Personal Narrative: When I Extended My Knee

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Beginning at the age of nine I had issues with my knee, issues entails whenever I extended my leg or ran my knee cap would slide out of place. When I first noticed it my parents and I set up an appointment with an orthopedic doctor to look further into the problem. After a few other appointments with multiple doctors, we decided to try physical therapy and a knee brace. Various doctors wanted to do surgery but considering I was only nine, surgery was not our choice. After a while we decided to leave the problem alone and see what happened as I grew. Although there were difficulties, such as pain, not being able to run, and various dreadful issues. When I only extended my leg it did not hurt immensely, it felt like a ball rolling over

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