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Sunday, November 07, 2004
I am starting this post at 12:25 am. I am in terrible, terrible pain. I have somehow demolished a disc in my lower back. Comes with age, I am told, but I don't have that much age. It could be all the weight it's forced to support. No matter the cause, it has caused my right leg to go numb. A few weeks ago, I could not walk, or sit upright. I could only lay down. The day it first struck, I managed to get up around supper time to fix a little something, to help my wife who had called on her way home. I mixed up some cornbread and put it in the oven. That put me down for three hours. The pain is somewhat better, with the drugs and a few visits to physical therapy, but it is not gone. I can walk almost normally. But, I cannot feel my right foot. I cannot feel my right thigh. My calf muscle will cramp without cause or warning. Not one of those light cramps you sometimes feel coming on, that you can stretch your leg out on and be over with in a minute, but a deep, breath-taking cramp, with no control over your calf muscle at all. It's like being struck with a baseball on the calf. It can last for hours, and has on a couple of occasions. I am drinking tonight to try to ease the pain. I know that there are those of you who question this form of medication. I agree. I am willing to try anything. But the problem tonight is the other leg. I have been compensating for the change in how my right leg works. My left knee is the size of a softball tonight. I could not pull my leg out of my pants a while ago, when I got home from work. I cannot bend it in a negative, in other words, upward with no weight on it. I cannot bend it at all with weight on it, as in bending to pick something up. To do that, I have to use my semi-functional right leg, which is excruciating, but gets the job done. I am taking massive doses of ibuprofren. I take asprin between doses. Tonight, I am sitting with an ice pack on my back, and an ice pack wrapped around my left knee. At the same time, my right foot feels like there is a railroad spike through the ankle, a pleasant little sensation that has developed in the last week whenever I get done for the day and rest. I have awakened in the night a few times in the last two weeks moaning and holding my leg. I am going now to make a bloody mary, something I dearly love to drink. Let's see how that works.
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