Sudden Illness!!!!!!! (part two)

Well folks, health is NOT permitting, so there is no post about our power room today!

The leg pain returned this morning, but CUBED!!!!!

I have been shot, stabbed, had over 20 broken bones. I have had surgery performed with virtually no anesthetic. I completed three IRONMAN triathlons, 51 Olympic ones, three marathons, cut off my finger, had it re-attached and ALL of that pain combined would have been about half what hit me this morning!

The choice became: was it a back injury (no back pain at all), or something vascular, including heart? I had to choose and seemed guided to the back injury, as the symptoms seemed closer. Also, the tests from a conventional doctor would have been expensive, while chiropractic would not be and would also not involve medication. So I decided to try chiropractic first.

While talking with the doctor, I remembered an incident a few weeks ago when I worked for a few days in the desert harvesting plants. I am a DRIVER, but could not sit and watch the others work, so I helped as best as "old guy" can. At one point, the guys were very tired and could not lift a pot. Ever the wise-ass, I said to them, 'Don't tell anyone I can do this", and lifted the 250 pound pot into the back of the truck TWISTING to get it up there.

That did it! I aggravated a very old back injury and the leg pain was the price!

A few more visits to the doctor and about a month of limping and weakness and I will be back! As I love to say about the desert, now applied to my leg/back: "This ain't my first rodeo!"

But again..... consider health care before moving to any remote place. One reader wrote me about paramedics and advised (good advise) getting "flight insurance", a "rider" I would imagine. I still say that driving to Alpine at 80 MPH will get you to care faster than calling paramedics and waiting for a helicopter and THEN going to Alpine at 200 MPH.

Scary thought, no matter what!

Unless the leg bursts into flames in the morning, I will do my "power post" tomorrow! We have another dead short in a troublesome length of wire. That has to be repaired CORRECTLY tomorrow, then I will take photos