Knee'd, I remind you.

[alexandraerin]

I'm back from a shoe-shopping expedition with my mother, and I've got my feet up, and I'm feeling better. Not only did my mother fix me up with some balance-correcting shoes that have worked well for managing "the family knees", but she's given me some advice on how to handle the whole situation. Cold weather is not good for joint pain (or, from another point of view, it's exceptionally good for joint pain) and this is my first winter with noticeably arthritic knees. I'm still learning how to do things in ways that don't aggravate them (or to put it another way, I keep doing things in ways that do aggravate them) and there's a subsidiary effect on my back because of all the compensation I do in terms of how I'm walking and bending.

So this is all to say that I'm coping with actual physical pain and pain-related stress right now, which probably has a lot to do with my emotional state over the past couple of days. I'm dealing with that now, so hopefully I'll be a little bit more moderate in my responses to things.

Comments

[addiejd.livejournal.com]

Do not discount the therapeutic affects of ice packs and heating pads for when you're sitting or lying around. They can do wonders when in conjunction with the other stuff you use, and almost never have contraindications.