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Alicia McHatton was in Kailua-Kona, on Hawaii's big island, when she received the phone call that would change her life. It was April 2023, and for the previous eight months, McHatton, a neonatal nurse at the University of California at Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, had lived with incessant pain in her left knee. The popping and clicking she felt, resulting from a torn piece of cartilage lodged behind her kneecap, made it difficult to move around. At just 39 years old, she didn't want to have a full knee replacement. Over the phone, her doctor proposed something else: How would she feel about coral? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
