Oww! That hurts!

I finally gave in. I went to the chiropractor that several of my friends have been suggesting for years.

My knee started hurting for no reason. I put up with it for three weeks. It was NOT getting any better, was making it hard to sleep, and it was getting very painful to work the clutch in my car. By the time I would go to bed my whole leg hurt. I recently remembered that I had a health savings account from back when I worked at Action. At that time it had about $600 in it. Through the process of a $2.50/month fee, it now had about $325 left. I won't spend much time saying how angry this made me. Thieving banks. I still had enough to get at least a little bit of actual health care for MY money. I called the office and made an appointment for the next day. So far it has made a huge difference. I'm in much less pain than I was before. I made another appointment for Tuesday. Hopefully it won't take too many more visits. I now have a large degree of confidence in this particular chiropractor. I was also pleased to hear, after telling him the history of all my injuries and broken bones (nearly all of them were motorcycle related - go figure), that I'm in relatively good shape. Yay! He said my knee problems were not actually a knee problem. It was a culmination of years of small injuries and my body compensating for those injuries. They finally reached a point where it was just too much for too long. I'd like to have him do some work on my upper body too, but I probably won't have any money left in my account by the time this current issue is taken care of. It's likely that I'll just wait until something else happens. That's how I usually like to deal with my own health issues. Preventative measures? I wish.

I want to try and use this experience as an incentive to start riding my bike again. The weather has been unusually nice for a while. I have to wait until this knee/leg thing is taken care of though.

I don't want to get any older.