Pain

I'm in a lot of pain these days. Not complaining, just a fact.

(Okay, complaining too)

See, when they replaced my hip joints they cut through some major nerve trunks. So I have neuropathy, or "phantom pain" from the waist down, basically. Mostly in my feet.

The bottom of my right foot is the worst. It can make me jump with a sudden increase in pain, a lil' jolt as it were. Sometimes it feels like pins poking, sometimes it just aches. But it's almost always there.

Then there's the arthritis in the hands, the knees starting to give out, the back which is never quite right anymore....

It's a good thing this is gradual. If this happened all at once you'd think something was seriously wrong with you.

But nope.

It's just age.  :P