Vietnam-era Veteran uses new knees to "Escape from Alcatraz" 

Two weeks after George Mink had both knees replaced, while in rehab at the St. Louis VA Medical Center, one of the specialists in charge of physical activity said to the lifelong athlete, “I heard that you're talking about riding and running with your knees.”
Mink said “yeah absolutely, I'm just counting down the days until these babies get better.”
She said “I'll tell you what,” and she went and got a three wheeled bike and brought it to his hospital bed.
“So you want to you want to ride again, right?” “Absolutely,” Mink replied.
She helped Mink get on the bike and rode him all around the hospital.
“She took me everywhere,” he explained. "And she said, 'you want to stop?' No let's keep going. 'They hurt a little bit?' Yeah they hurt a little bit but let's keep going.”
And the 61-year-old Vietnam-era Veteran kept going.
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