More Foot Torture

I went to see Dr Irving, the pain specialist, on Monday and this time he injected both feet. I had a second shot in my right foot in early April and that seemed to help even more than the first one. Carmen, my massage therapist, commented on how much more freely the tissues were moving in my right foot and how much more bound up things were in the left foot. I was feeling much more pain in my left foot while she was working on it. So, this time Dr Irving did both feet. He tickled the tendon on my right foot again, owwie, owwie, owwie! When he'd finished it felt like I had giant water blisters on both heels.

I hobbled out to the bus to go back to work. I felt like a weeble only one that actually could fall down. After I'd been at my desk for an hour or so the lidocaine wore off and ohmygod did it hurt. I took two Alleve and that didn't seem to touch it at all. Another 45 minutes later I took a percocet and that hardly took the edge off!

I finished the bit of work I had and decided my suffering would be better suited for home use. Toddling down from my office to the bus tunnel entrance (literally across the street) made me wonder if I could seriously make it all the way home. I felt very old and frail, grabbing all the had rails getting on and off the bus. Got home around 4:30 and thankfully a kind neighbor (Kyle you rock!) was able to potty walk the boyz.

I promptly mixed myself a dark and stormy, took another percocet and settled in on the couch for the evening, waiting for the potent mixture of chemicals to work it's magic. Well, it didn't, so I made another dark and stormy and tried to care a little less that it still hurt a heckavalot.

I saw Carmen tonight (Wednesday) for our regular torture session. She treated me gently given my advanced suffering Monday. She worked on the knots in my calves and then my feet some. She said the left foot is already moving better! I am so looking forward to the day I can walk easily and essentially pain free, it's gotta happen, one of these days, one of these days ...