My Motorcycle Injuries

  Yeah, I made a funny. See, Kawasaki's main slogan years ago was "let the good times roll", and I rode a Kawasaki. Hilarious, right? Wrong?  Anyhoo, the times continue to roll in my life. The thing that I've been dealing with this past week is the bottom half of my leg. I've had pretty savage cramps in my "injured" leg since I came home from the hospital years ago. It starts in my calf but works its way down to my foot. If I try to bend my foot at the ankle in any way, I then experience pain that causes me to dream of a morphine addiction. The only way to make it ease up involves standing up and bending my ankle into a full standing position. The process is slow and excruciating. I had a pretty bad episode of this thing in my lower leg two nights ago, and the pain is now lingering all day in my calf. There's always pain throughout my entire leg, but this is more of a special, I deserve all of your attention type of pain. I can only hope that I cramp...

I’ve spent the better part of the day getting things ready for tonight’s church worship service. I’m taking a little break now to type this post before I get back to the more important stuff. Today has been a little different from others. I’ve been experiencing pretty severe cramps/muscle pulls in my leg for the past few months. It happens sporadically and the pain always concentrates itself on the area below my knee, sometimes at the front of the ankle region and other times more down the length of my calf. It has continued to get progressively worse over time, and it always occurs when I’m lying in bed at night. I can usually get rid of the pain by getting up and walking a little, but not the past two times that it has occurred. The pain gets to where I cannot walk very well or even touch the affected area in any way, and I had an occurrence last night. Did I say night? More like morning, as in 4 a.m. I thought that it would go away with some movement, but it has persisted all day wi...