Those of you who were
concerned about my knee pain can stop worrying: It’s just bursitis.
In other words: old age.
Bursitis is kind of like
a beer belly, in that it’s caused by a buildup of fluids in a part of the body.
Specifically, it’s an inflammation of the fluid-filled pads in the joints, in
this case my right knee. I’m right smack in the most common age bracket for
this problem, which was probably caused by the large amount of trail hiking and
other walking we did over the summer. Often it resolves itself after several
months, if you don’t go out and do stupid. The treatment? Rest and ice.
Winter is coming, so
there’ll be plenty of ice.
I hate going out in
winter, so there’s my excuse to rest. And to think, I tried to talk my wife
into buying a treadmill for cold weather—thank goodness she’s cheap.
I’m taking this as a sign
that I should do more writing over the winter months. But if I do have to get
around, hey—a knee brace hidden under my long johns and a dose of naproxen do a
world of good.
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| Brace yourself for another knee pun |
At some point arthritis will likely turn up in my left knee- thanks to an accident years ago. The doctors at the time said it's quite probable ten or fifteen years down the line that it'll happen.
ReplyDeleteHopefully you weren't as much in denial about it as I was. I was pretty rough on my body over the years, especially with firefighting stuff--I was bound to start having problems.
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