C Craft
Well-Known Member
Looks like as bad as 2017 has been it is gonna close out just like the rest of the year! I have been fighting a lot of nerve pain in my feet and legs and it seems to be getting worse. Some nights I go to bed and it will be 2-3 hrs before my feet and legs will let me sleep!
Then to top it all off, about 2 days before Christmas I started getting this red patch on one leg! I have been trying to repair a lamp that I bought for the wife about 32 yrs. ago. So spent a fair amount of time on my feet in the shop.
Christmas stayed on my feet trying to get Christmas dinner prepared and cooked. Since the wife got sick I do most of the inside stuff as well as the outside! Anyways I finally get a chance to sit down Christmas night and my leg is killing me! Pull up the pants leg and the red patch is now covering one whole side of my leg from the knee down into the ankle. Can't get relief with foot up as nerve pain causes toes and feet to go dead and yet they feel like they are on fire with pins and needles in them!!
So finally call the Doc and get the last appointment for the day! He says its edema.
Edema" is the medical term for swelling!
So no kiddin Doc, or it might be cellulitis, or it might be something else. So to cover all the bases I am gonna put you on antibiotics and give you a referral to a Dermatologist!
Seriously, in three to four weeks, (if I am lucky) I get to see the Dermatologist and what ever it was will more than likely better. How the h311 are they gonna know what to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This whole medical crap has gotten too specialized!!
I hope some one can get a handle on this as it is in effect taking my legs from me!! It is hard to stand in the shop to do anything and sitting ain't none to comfortable either!! I never knew getting old was gonna be so much fun!! Damn of all things I never expected my legs to go!!
Here is to a new and better year guys. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Then to top it all off, about 2 days before Christmas I started getting this red patch on one leg! I have been trying to repair a lamp that I bought for the wife about 32 yrs. ago. So spent a fair amount of time on my feet in the shop.
Christmas stayed on my feet trying to get Christmas dinner prepared and cooked. Since the wife got sick I do most of the inside stuff as well as the outside! Anyways I finally get a chance to sit down Christmas night and my leg is killing me! Pull up the pants leg and the red patch is now covering one whole side of my leg from the knee down into the ankle. Can't get relief with foot up as nerve pain causes toes and feet to go dead and yet they feel like they are on fire with pins and needles in them!!
So finally call the Doc and get the last appointment for the day! He says its edema.
Edema" is the medical term for swelling!
So no kiddin Doc, or it might be cellulitis, or it might be something else. So to cover all the bases I am gonna put you on antibiotics and give you a referral to a Dermatologist!
Seriously, in three to four weeks, (if I am lucky) I get to see the Dermatologist and what ever it was will more than likely better. How the h311 are they gonna know what to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This whole medical crap has gotten too specialized!!
I hope some one can get a handle on this as it is in effect taking my legs from me!! It is hard to stand in the shop to do anything and sitting ain't none to comfortable either!! I never knew getting old was gonna be so much fun!! Damn of all things I never expected my legs to go!!
Here is to a new and better year guys. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!