Here's one I've been suffering through all week.
Last Friday my wife and I took a little hike around the property. No big thing, we do it all the time. Woke up Saturday morning and could hardly walk with extremely sharp pain in my right hip. I have a very strong threshold to pain so this was very painful. Like when you hit your thumb with a framing hammer times 20. Tried stretching, deep heat etc. Nothing helped. Woke up Sunday after sleeping in my chair to pain radiating all the way down my leg, especially in my knee which is bad already. To move around I had to walk like Festus in Gun Smoke. Monday it was no better, it was actually worse. I was taking 2400mg of Motrin to try and calm it down. Tuesday I called the doc and he told me, over a video chat, that it sounded like Tendinitis. Took me off the Motrin and put me on Mobic 15mg. So I continued to sleep in my chair while my wife took over all my responsibilities, which aren't light considering where I live. Yesterday wasn't much better but I felt it was getting better. Woke up this morning and the hip and knee were still painful but not nearly as bad as earlier days, I can walk upright now. But the condition had run down to my big toe not allowing me to bend it at all. I'm hoping this will run out the end of my big toe and be gone. I haven't spent a minute in the shop since Saturday. My wife has told me until this is completely gone I can't spend more than 2 hours in the shop. First sign of relapse I told the doc maybe we should just cut the leg off. He just laughed...I was serious.
If that takes place I can join Lefty and Pancho at Halloween.
