Vacation woes.

[PA DETAILER]

I was looking forward to 10 days of bliss. Believe you me, it's been anything but!! Started when I got in Friday night. -7 temps. Felt off kilter. Chills and no energy. But no fever. Guessing it might have been the cold temps and weather related? This passed Thursday. Good. Traded it for another issue! Some info first. I have been having some right knee issues for some time. Minor pain. Never missed any work over it. Put it down as minor arthritis. I have a physical job. Pulling loaded pallets all day with a pallet jack. Why the right knee? Came to me I pull them out at an angle with the force on my right knee. Makes sense. Occasionally would wear a compression knee brace at work. Thursday went to the dealer to check out a Silverado ZR2. Just wanted to sit in it. No nerf bars. So, it was a little step up. Did not feel anything weird. Got home and wanted to wash the truck. Put my knee brace on. Some ice in the driveway so i was careful. By the time I was done that knee was singing like a choir! Did i tweak it out there? I could barely, walk last night, had to hobble. Did the usual cold and hot, pills and cream treatment before bed. Not much better today. So, time to have this finally checked out! Appt. today at 3PM. With my doctor. Get to the bottom of it! Not even close to how I expected to feel this vacation! With any hope I can salvage the next 3 days. I am back to work Tuesday, if I can even go? Thanks, if you read this far. The best laid plans never come out as planned do they! In hindsight I should have stayed home Thursday and not washed the truck!

[luckydawg]

sounds like my kind of luck

[Texchappy]

Sorry for your pain/issues. Sucks don’t it!

[2black1s]

I can relate... While I was still working full-time, I would get time off at Christmas/New Years, typically 10-12 days or so. One year I was planning to rebuild the engine in one of my GTO's and wouldn't you know it, I got sick with a really bad flu for 6 or 7 of those days off. That was sometime in the 1990s. The good news is that I haven't been that sick since... Nothing worse than a common cold.

And as for your knee, I'm going through a shoulder issue right now that sucks. I went to an orthopedic shoulder specialist this morning for a cortisone injection, but after his examination he suspects a torn ligament. If that is the case, the injection will do no good, so we skipped it. Now I need to go back next Friday for an MRI so that he can make a certain diagnosis. If a torn ligament is the final diagnosis, surgery is the only remedy.

[Forty]

Sorry to hear your vacation has turned into anything but a vacation. I do similar work as you. Drive a Tractor trailer for Coca Cola. Unload shrink wrapped pallets with a power pallet jack. Feel better.

[PaulMys]

All I could hear was "Born Under a Bad Sign" by Cream as I was reading this.

Hope your knee gets better, man.

[PA DETAILER]

Doctor also thinks arthritic. His hands on tests revealed nothing bad. Prescribed MELOXICAM for the pain. And suggested VOLTAREN arthritis pain gel as one the best. Did take x-rays that i will know the results Tuesday. Honestly think it's the J O B after 15 years.

[bill walsh]

Get better PA Detailer take care of that knee i need 2 knee replacements

[PA DETAILER]

I really think it's time for a B E E R.

[Markymapo]

Ugh on the vacation plans. If it wasn’t for bad luck you would have no luck at all. Make the best out of it. At least it has warmed up in SE PA for some yard work n detailing this weekend