One part of Saturday’s BBQ story that I did not mention was a severe knee pain I developed early Saturday morning. By 8 a.m. I could barely walk over to mom and dad’s house where I knew they had some extra canes. I had used a heating pad, and continue to use it each morning and night now. I needed to get Ice for the BBQ, an electrical plug from Camping World, and so I went to a drug store and got some Icy Hot cream, Icy Hot knee patch and knee support brace. I put them on out in the parking lot, and by the time I got to Camping World, a two minute drive, I could easily walk again. By the end of the day, I was better. The pain seemed to stem from a pinch nerve, as there was no swelling, redness or other symptoms. Perhaps putting the brace and patch on out in the parking lot “un-pinched” the nerve. Regardless, I was happy to be better for this special day.
Saturday night I went to bed at the uncharacterized time of 8 pm, and did not get up until after 6 am. No knee pain for the first two hours…until I put my socks on sitting on the bed, and when I got up there was a slight twist of the ankle/leg and BAM!, the knee started to hurt again. Not as bad as Saturday, but this time it took all day to slowly go away. Today is Wednesday, and there has been no return of the problem. Of course, I have researched and researched the situation. Some were concerned about a blood clot, but there just wasn’t any other symptoms to show that. No pain to the touch. Also, having back pain as a growing kid where my back did not grow as fast as the rest of my body, I am familiar with nerve pain, and this definitely felt like nerve pain. For now, it is taking it easy, using or having a cane ready as needed, and I am using a Ace Bandage now instead of the bulky knee brace.
For the past few days we have just been enjoying family time. We had a great mother’s day on Sunday, enjoyed leftovers on Monday, and went out to lunch to Panera’s with mom and dad yesterday. Awaiting the awning from Houston which should be here in a week or so, and then we will get some work done on the motorhome. In the meantime I have some Duragloss 521 and 581 coming in from Amazon so that I can finally give the new RV a good cleaning….which after that long trip is well overdue.
