17 1/2 months, "the first payment effective December, 1965, payable when award becomes final and the balance of payments payable the last of each month thereafter." (emphasis supplied)
The petitioner called at the Commission offices on 10 January 1966 and expressed her dissatisfaction with the award. The Commission then received a letter from the petitioner's attending physician, Dr. Collings, on 14 January 1966 stating that the petitioner had continual swelling, pain, and discomfort, which made it necessary for him to give her prescriptions for pain. It was his opinion that her leg would continue to need future help, especially during prolonged working periods. The Claims Supervisor wrote the petitioner on 20 January 1966, advising her that her call and the letter from Dr. Collings would be considered as aall parties treated the motion for rehearing as abandoned.
On 13 April 1966, claimant petitioned for readjustment or reopening of claim. The matter was reopened and the fixation devices used in the operation were removed on 29 November 1966. Following this surgery, she was hospitalized on 20 December 1966 with pneumonitis, which Dr. Collings stated was an old residual infection which flared up following the surgery on her knee. Dr. Taber denied that it was related to the surgery.
The Commission issued an award dated 14 June 1967 of "Additional Findings and Award For Scheduled Permanent Disability," granting accident benefits through 23 May 1967, additional total temporary disability compensation, and again fixing the petitioner's disability as a 35% loss of function of the left leg, and authorizing release of permanent