Ashtead's Journal: Pain in my foot.

What has been happening recently...

September 15 was the Ekeberg Market. There I bought a set of rubber gaskets for the doors and trunk of the old car, I managed to replace the one on the left front door so far, before the foot went sore: strange how it seemed just tired on the Saturday, but was hurting terribly on Sunday morning.

I had been walking too much or some such, and the shoes I had were quite worn, that might have contributed to the malady. I thought I'd try resting it for a couple days to see if it got better. In particular, trying to walk down stairs was not pleasant at all. So any trip down to the basement became a planned excursion, making sure I would not have to go back up for some tool or whatever.

Now since I work mostly with programming, the sore foot wasn't much in the way there, apart from the general painfulness that was not good for concentration. And then there were a couple of customers that wanted visits those days too, so I had to go out there. After having had to walk up and down the stairs at one of the on the Tuesday, I was not feeling very mobile on Wednesday. Sort of the "spoons" thing that Solemdragon used to talk about as a measure of exhaustion. This was the left foot, so I could still drive the E-car, fortunately. And I got a ride with a friend into Oslo when having to visit another customer there, then I could take a streetcar back towards home and save some walking that day.

As the foot still hurt after a week, it was time to see the doctor. Which appointment was after another 3 days. By then I'd gotten used to the pain in a way, it would be coming and going, and occasionally I'd feel something, a tendon or muscle shift around inside the foot, with a sense of tension and relief when it hit the detente. The doctor said this seemed to be inflamed tendons, and I should try to keep the load off, and take these "BREXIDOL" pills for a week. Now, these pills would be hard on the stomach, and another common side-effect would be a headache, so I thought, gee, now I'll be having a pain in the stomach and in the head in addition to the foot --

Fortunately, the headaches did not appear. The pills were large, hexagonal, with a slot right across them, looked like the heads of certain bolts more than anything else. So I got the week's worth of these, and they actually did help. I didn't even get more than slight nausea either, so they worked and the doctor was right.

Now, a month later, there is still some pain in the foot, but it is a lot better than it was. I don't have to plan my trips to the basement anymore either, and that is just as well, since I've been busy clearing stuff out of the rear rooms, since a friend and her daughter will be coming to stay here for a while, and I'll have to make room for them and their stuff.

Like the sin(x)/x function for a large negative x -- I sense the approach of a change, today I found a magazine addressed to this friend in the mail, one of the first concrete signs. Having been living in this big house by myself for years, there will be some re-adjustment when two others will come here to stay.