I was puzzled by a message on the news today. Our queen Beatrix has to go to the hospital for surgery on her worn out knee. That didn’t make much sense. How can a queen have a worn out knee? I would expect worn out knees with people who do work that is hard on the knees, or maybe athletes that demand a lot from their knees, but a queen? What would she do that could ever hurt her knees? I don’t think she would sit on her knees all day to clean up the royal gardens, or try to get that nasty stain out of the royal carpet! :-)
Puzzled I went to google to find some answers. And I did. Apparently it comes with age. That worries me a bit, as my own knees are not the best in the world… thanks to long time friend Osgood-Schlatter. But well, back to the queen. Apparently age wears out knees, some quicker then others, and as queens don’t do have to do heavy work nor are found to be great athletes, time seems to be all she can fall back on. But there is another interesting thing. She had a meniscus (or “cartilage”) removed a couple of years ago. And that seems to have a bad effect on the health of the knee. Or with other words, it wears out much quicker! Interesting stuff. Still this leads to even more questions, as how could it be that her meniscus had to be removed? Because loosing a meniscus seems like something for professional football players, not for queens… that makes me wonder what kind of hobbies our queen has? :-)

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