So for three weeks, I’ve been wearing a brace and babying my Bakers cystic knee, elevating it whenever I could and icing it down. Until Friday, it didn’t feel that much better. Until Friday.
Friday, it felt so much better. I entertained the notion that I could carry a heavy chair upstairs alone, and I did! And nothing hurt.
Until Saturday morning, when I had to get up early and go to a family funeral. My knee, my sciatic nerve, and my hamstring screamed in pain: “NO! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING, GET BACK IN BED!!!!”
It was the worst feeling I’ve ever had, and it lasted all day and all night. This morning, I tried to stand up and had to drag my leg along, like Frankenstein’s monster. It hurts SO bad.
I am getting really sick of middle age. I like the wisdom and serenity and all that crap, but you can keep this sort of thing.
“the notion that I could carry a heavy chair upstairs alone, and I did!”
Honestly, Susie. The prosecution rests.
But I guess you know that at this point.
Willya take it *slow* fercryinoutloud?
When you have a cyst the size of a baseball pressing against your nerves, odds are it will hurt no matter what.
My mom used to say to me “You ain’t as young as you used to be”. I was around mid-forties at the time. Now, in my mid-sixties I know exactly what she meant: This getting old shit ain’t what it’s all cracked up to be. Go easier, Suze.
Western medicine sucks. The best thing they’ve come up with is the oxy, which (believe me) makes you not hurt any more.
But now they’ve discovered that they’ve addicted loads of people, and I can’t imagine how that could have slipped by them, but whatever.
If you can handle it, and I know you can, a half or whole percocet, along with a muscle relaxer, makes the body stop hurting.
I know how you hate pharmecueticals, but there comes a time in our lives that it’s that or immobility. Arms around you.
I wasn’t downplaying the baseball. Nat at all. You said yourself you felt better before etc., etc., etc. Just saying “listen to your body!” It’s partly selfish, of course. I want you to be around forever!
I strongly support the Game Ready. It combines cold with compression to minimize pain. It is often used in sports arenas and following joint replacement.
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