I have never been a fan of going to the doctor.\u00a0 I have a really great doctor and I don’t mind so much when I have to go see him.\u00a0 Right now I am contemplating a trip to the doctor and this is why.<\/p>\n
Yesterday David got thirty bags of mulch for the garden.\u00a0 He was busy with something else, so I proceeded to lift them out of the truck and stack\u00a0 them.\u00a0 No problem.\u00a0 I have stacked hundreds of bags of mulch in the past.<\/p>\n
Then, last night I started to bend my left knee and an excruciating pain shot through it, clear up my leg.\u00a0 Every time I tried bending my knee I was in tears.\u00a0 I had pinched a nerve or pulled a muscle.\u00a0 I took pain relievers and a muscle relaxer in hopes of softening the pain a little.<\/p>\n
I took a heating pad to bed with me, but I spent the night looking for a comfortable position for my leg.\u00a0 It was like it was its own entity.\u00a0 Not a part of my body except for the pain.\u00a0 I don’t think childbirth was as painful.\u00a0 I finally ended up in\u00a0a single bed in our guest room and fell into a restless sleep.<\/p>\n
Now today I am sitting in a recliner, unable to bend my knee unless I use my hands to gently raise it.\u00a0 I had to make baked beans and a cake for a funeral dinner at out church today and I managed that and drove to church, but had to get someone to help me get the baked beans inside.\u00a0 I felt so puny.\u00a0 I was so glad I managed to do it as the funeral was for a man I have known ever since we started going to our church thirty some years ago.\u00a0 He was a godly man and a good man and we will surely miss him.\u00a0 I am sure they are celebrating his arrival in Heaven.<\/p>\n
This afternoon, David and I are going to look at some acreage in Brown county and I am hoping I can walk the property lines to see where it goes.\u00a0\u00a0 I am determined to do it as I really would love to own some property in Brown Country which is a wooded, hilly area in our state.\u00a0\u00a0 We shall see.\u00a0 David says if I am not better in a day or so, I will go to the doctor.\u00a0 I imagine him twisting and turning my knee and me screaming in agony as he does it and I don’t relish the thought.\u00a0 I am praying the pain will go away before I have to see a doctor.<\/p>\n
When I was a little girl, my parents took all us kids periodically to the doctor for polio shots.\u00a0 Back then it was a real threat.\u00a0 In fact, one time my parents thought I had polio because I got a very stiff neck and could not look up.\u00a0 Those were the times when doctors made house calls and Dr. Barton came to our house and put me through a series of neck exercises.\u00a0 He decided I didn’t have polio, but suggested we all have polio shots and we did.\u00a0 My sister would tease me about how long the needle was and scare me half to death before I even got into the doctor’s office.\u00a0 Perhaps that is why I have a slight fear of doctors to this day.<\/p>\n
Later, when I was in school, I suffered with tonsillitis quite often.\u00a0 I was absent from school for six weeks in second grade because I had such severe sore throat problems.\u00a0 My mother would talk to my teacher and get my homework and I would lay in bed all day eating soup and reading and doing my homework.\u00a0 I was so glad to get back to school with all my friends.\u00a0 I still have my tonsils even though the doctor had recommended they be removed.<\/p>\n
I am not a good patient and do not like being bedridden or chair ridden as I am now.\u00a0 Perhaps this is God’s way of slowing me down and having me look to Him.\u00a0 Anyway, I have empathy with those of you in pain right now.\u00a0 It isn’t fun.\u00a0 It’s humbling and there is nothing to be done but endure it.\u00a0\u00a0 If you are a praying person, say a little prayer for me that my knee might be healed.\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n
I have sounded like a whiny baby here, but, hey, every day isn’t all sunshine and happy.\u00a0 Bye.<\/p>\n
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