I've Been Shot! (With a Hypodermic)

I forgot about the shots I had in my heels before. I had them because I had a few bouts with heel spurs. The second time I got the cortisone it took care of the problem completely, and I've not had any recurring symptoms yet, which is great. For that one it was far enough away, but the numbing spray was almost worse than the shot itself.

@MarshaMusselman That's crazy how the numbing spray is worse.

@T_gray i thought it was a needle at first until I stole a peek. I had to brace myself for the spray each time. I had several shots over the course of I don't know how much time. But, at least that isn't any issue for me any longer. I think maybe why the numbing spray is so bad is maybe it's a freezing spray, not just numbing.

I have small spurs in my wrists as well. My brother gets cortisone shots in his knees (he blew one knee out on the deck of an aircraft carrier in the early 80's, then the other one went downhill from compensating ("limping") for the other knee) but they aren't helping anymore because there's nothing left "padding" the bones from rubbing together. And the VA won't do his knee replacement until he turns 65 (they only want to do it once, the knees last an average of 15 years and male life expectancy is 79 years...too bad about our dad who's 85 and doing well, huh? ).

@FourWalls You said that kind of funny about your dad. I'm sure you don't regret that he's doing so well at his age, but it's not unusual for those of us younger to have poorer health than our parents or other relatives. I don't know how old my mother was when she started having issues with arthritis, but I only learned about it once I got older. I was in my early forties when it began to bother my knees and ankles, while my daughter was bothered by the time she was eight or so. She's never been diagnosed, but the symptoms are similar. I wonder how much it has to do with either how we were raised with eating habits or whether we stuck to what we were taught or went with the times and began to eat less than the best. While we didn't eat a bunch of junk when I was young; we didn't get pop, chips or candy other than at special holidays. But, being a part of a larger family, I'm the oldest of six kids, we also didn't have many berries and the ones containing antioxidants and other needed vitamins on a regular basis either.