Walk the Line.. barely

Well, the diagnosis was not what I was hoping. I was hoping for a pinpointed, specific problem with a simple solution. Instead, as always, it is wayyy more complicated than that. I apparently have a whole host of problems nagging me from head to foot (literally), which has caused a muscle/tendon in my left leg (which connects all the way down through the ankle and foot) to inflame and not properly supply blood circulation as a result of the left side of my body relying too heaving on said muscle. Something like that. However, this is along the long-sought explanation to my hip and knee problems. Solution: I need to be wealthy to keep up with maintenance, including regular physical therapy, fancy running shoes, orthodics and daily torture exercises to loosen the muscle on my own. I sort of wish it was just a broken ankle so the pain could be treated and healed and I would be fixed in a few weeks. No such luck. This negates all my previous hard work and I'll have to start over again when my ankle/foot/leg/whaetever the hell it is starts to feel better. After several days of the torture exercises which dangerously flirt with the highest level on my pain threshold, I can walk a little further before stopping and wincing and can even wear heels around at work! I guess during times like these it's the little things in life...