Ouch!

About a week ago I noticed I was getting a pain in my left heel. It started as merely an annoyance, after all I'm used to pain and it has to be pretty bad for me to give it more than a minutes thought, but as the days went on it became more painful. By the time this past Tuesday rolled around I could barely walk on it. I had a routine doctor's appointment already scheduled with my primary care doctor so I mentioned it when I went to see her the next day. Although I think the fact that I was hobbling around was a dead give-away to her that something else was up. She suggested an x-ray. I was against it because I was sure there was nothing wrong because I hadn't hurt it in any way. But I went and had the x-ray anyway. The diagnosis...

A bone spur and...arthritic changes in my achilles area. Hmmm...I definitely wasn't expecting that. I did some research on bone spurs over the weekend and am relieved to hear that they aren't a big deal. The arthritic changes present the mose interest as this is probably what's causing the spur and therefore the pain. Do I really need this right now? Don't I have enough health issues to deal with? I'm seeing a podiatrist this afternoon and hopefully he'll tell me it'll go away on its own and that I'm not really falling apart after all.

And to top it all off, I'm in the throws of a terrible cold. I barely made it out of my jammies this weekend. I actually only had street clothes on for a few hours Saturday but I spent the rest of the weekend blowing my nose in misery on the sofa. 2 boxes of tissues later and I'm still blowing strong.