Damn my leg

The thing with walking is that once you learn how to, early in your life, you forget to think about it and just do it. Unless something demands your attention.

At some point during the first part of last week, I must have somehow wrenched my right knee or overstressed the muscles around it, although I do not remember doing it. Ever since then, though, the muscles about a hand's width above my knee are hurting, not so much when I'm sitting or bending it - in fact, I can do that fine, which is a relief because it means that it is a muscle and not the joint that's hurt - but when I put weight on it when I stand up, and even more so when I walk, then the muscles feel like they're seizing up and it is rather painful. Running is out of the question (makes it feel as if the knee is trying to reverse directions), and even my usual walking pace is too fast, much to my annoyance. I've been treating the muscles with Voltaren, and I'm going to get a knee stabilising bandage from Boot's today.

Of course, the fact that I'm limping along and favouring my right leg means that my left leg wants to join in the fun, giving me a cramp in the calf. I am conscious of every step I take.

I've just this year realised that I like long walks, and now even walking to and from work is annoying. I hope this is over sometime soon, because I don't want to limp through Marbella later this month.

Leg update

Got that elastic bandage from Boots. Should have done so sooner. It works. I can walk! I can walk!