The Strange Pain

I think it was Friday that I was doing leg lifts and overdid it a bit. Anyway, Saturday, I had definite muscle pains in the upper part of my left leg. So, Sunday I went for a massage and Monday it was still hurting. Tuesday was weird. I could stand putting full weight on my left leg with no pain but the minute I moved, it was really, really bad. It was so bad that I actually went back to using a cane in the house and when I forgot the cane, I supported myself by moving from one piece of furniture to another. It was so bad that I told Fred that if it wasn’t showing signs of getting better by today, I was going to call for an emergency appointment…

I don’t think I have mentioned that we have had no television since Saturday? I called Dish Network and spent a long time on the phone trying this and that, but no programs. So, an appointment was made to have a tech person come to the house on Tuesday and find out what the problem was. We were told that we had to have a clear area of three feet behind every television when they arrived. Now, moving stuff was not too bad in the living room but I have a bag of recycleable paper, a bag of things I intend to offer on Freecycle and a box of shoes all piled up preventing access to the back of the TV in the bedroom. So, as well as moving a bit of furniture in the living room. I also had all these bags and boxes piled high on the bed. And, remember, I was doing all this when every movement of my left leg sent a stabbing pain through me.

Yesterday afternoon, two techs appeared and the first thing they asked was did we pay our bill! I had to laugh because that is what had occurred to me, too. I am sure you remember the wonderful bank woman who cancelled the wrong debit card and how I had to cancel the other one and wait for two new ones? One of those canceled cards was for our household account and the Dish Network payment is deducted automatically out of the household account. So, when I called, I had the person I was speaking to check that for me, and, no, the old card had been accessed and we didn’t need to pay again until the middle of this months. Anyway, I gave her the number of the new card so we are alright there. Anyway, what it turned out to be was what they call the Smart Card which had suddenly become stupid and stopped working!  So, the techs had the built-in card reauthorized and a new card is being sent…

So, the minute the tech people left, I put all the stuff on the bed back on the floor and lay down with the Kindle for about an hour. Now comes the strange part. When I got up, the pain in the upper part of my leg that had been extremely painful an hour before was gone! Absolutely and completely gone. Not even a residual ache left when I poked the muscle quite hard. And it was still not there this morning.. not even a ghost of it! That is the weirdest thing. Usually, a severe pain dies away gradually but not this time. And it has been just the same today, as good as it has ever been.

So, I don’t know!  

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happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but

trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change

your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to

correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working."

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