Knee issues

Creekland
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 22:16:04 +0000

@yucca10 The heel pain probably is PF, but that’s totally different than the knee issues. I can work around the heel pain. I am on my feet a lot via the farm, working at school, and our activities so such things happen as one ages - at least among my peers. I haven’t considered that to be abnormal.

@mamom What happened to you is the same as what happened to my sister. She told me she’d had on and off basic pain for a little bit, but then on one Fed Ex delivery something just snapped in her knee. That is what I’m hoping is not genetic.

@abasket This shouldn’t be at all affected by the BT. My balance isn’t ever off. At this point walking is my main form of exercise and I’m not really ever going to be able to do much more than that. The results of my breathing issues seem to boil down to radiation affecting the control center of the brain - deemed that way due to process of elimination. Nothing is wrong with my heart or lungs. I’m not quite sure how the calcium score of 175 fits in. I need to ask at my next appt. Otherwise, my pulse speeds up quickly doing pretty much anything and it slows down quite a bit when I’m not active. When it speeds up > 120 then I have the breathing issues. Most folks do at that point, but it takes more for most folks to reach that - esp active folks. When I’m still for too long it slows into the mid 50s, lower if I stay inactive for more than a day or two. That gets me feeling awful all over and super cold at any temperature with no amount of clothing warming my body up. It’s all easy to counteract. Stay up and active, but no marathons or heavy activity. The official advice from the cardiologist is to keep doing what I’ve been doing because it’s worked well for my body.

At my mom’s… she’s gotten old enough or cancer affected enough that she gets scared when I head out for a walk. It’s always “too cold, too hot, too wet, too dangerous, etc.” It’s frustrating for me, but I’ve decided it’s not going to kill me and stresses her out too much. At home I get a minimum of 5 miles walking in per day - spread throughout the day doing chores, teaching, shopping or whatever. If nothing else, we have a 1 1/4 mile trail I walk - up to 4 times during the day if needed. When we travel for ourselves we hike. We take the stairs in hotels instead of the elevator. We walk miles of beaches or trails. At mom’s I can’t even park at the end of the parking lot or walk all the aisles in the store when we go shopping.

Today was a good day where nothing in the knee felt wrong - at least up to this point. I’m trying to be careful with turns. I can’t be still though. Mentally I’ve long past reached my quota with dr appts. Anything I can do by myself is preferable. When this becomes constant or a tear really does happen that will probably tip the mental scale, but I’m inclined to try targeted exercises to see if that helps.

Meanwhile I need to go close in chickens and will pick up another mile of activity. It sure gets dark quickly this time of year!