Knee’s Up Mother Brown

Time to talk about my left knee, which is now constantly talking to me. It’s taken a beating over the years – odd sprain in college (snow football – the inner part of the knee was sprained – I guess the outside is usually where the sprain occurs), and a meniscus tear in 2000 (from basketball? – who knows). I had surgery for that, 2 months after getting it checked, so I had an additional time with the pain (of course, I didn’t do anything about it for at least 2 months).

Now I have pain that started out occasionally but is now pretty constant. There’s a dull pain that goes from minor to really painful at certain times of the day. It was usually when I got up after sitting for a period of time. It didn’t hurt when I was walking, which I took as a good sign. Well, I took it as a sign that I probably had some arthritis in the knee. I have some arthritis in my fingers, so I know the pain. I also know that for my fingers there is nothing to do about the pain – maybe some anti-inflammatories.

I’m not sure that there is much swelling in my knee, though, which might be bothersome. I was in real pain most of last week, but have been pretty good this weekend. So what do I do? I suppose that I should get it checked, although I’m sure the Doctor will say it’s arthritis and shrug, like “What can you do? Take some anti-inflammatories if the pain is too much.” Ugh, some chronic pain – the truest sense of getting old. Other than that, I’m fine. I feel pretty good, health-wise. I’m trying to convince my knee that it really doesn’t have any reason to be in pain – no real stress is being applied to it anymore, and since it feels better when I walk, it’s not from strain.

Let’s forget about the pain and move onto some music, that will soothe the savage knee pain. Today we’ve put together a podcast with Roxy Music, Lloyd Cole, the War on Drugs, Rotary Connection, Isaac Hayes, Buddy Miles, the Temptations, Adrian Belew, the Guess Who, Fleetwood Mac, the Electric Light Orchestra, Jerry Garcia, Lee “Scratch” Perry with Bill Laswell, and Black Uhuru.

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