My Right Foot Hurt

My Right Foot Hurt

Two days ago I had minor pain in the middle of my right foot and some pain from the to the middle toe.

That got worse yesterday, Wednesday, so I massaged it several times during the day and night and the pain went away for a long while.

Also, there was a minor pain on the ankle at the top and on the outside.

These symptoms have continued today.

I am requesting your best prayers because I am not sure what to do.

I do not recall any unusual incident in recent days.

Typically I walk around the apartment complex for about 20 minutes in the mornings and evenings.

I did not walk this morning to give my foot and ankle a rest.

When I woke up this morning and as I was laying in bed I remembered the injury to my ankle back in 1996. I was riding on my bicycle. I was struck from behind. I was thrown a great distance and landed on my head.

There were fractures to my neck, back, and both ankles.

The doctors and nurses say it was a miracle I lived and was not paralyzed from my neck down.

I was in the hospital for a month. Then I was in a rest home for 2 months. I was on disability for a year.

The put a rod and screws in my neck and one of my ankles but I do not remember which ankle.

About 7 years after the injury I had pain in my ankle and I went to a foot specialist. He said there was nothing he could do. I needed to just wait and hope the ankle would heal itself. It did.

My best guess is that there is at least an 80 percent chance the current conditions are like the past. But maybe that is not the case.

I hesitated to take Aleve until this morning. I wanted to fully feel what was happening to better understand it.

I have borrowed crutches to help me keep my weight off that foot if needed.

I informed my regular doctor. But I am not eager to spend the time and money to see a specialist who would just say take pain pills and wait.

I can endure this discomfort with over the counter pills. But how long? Is that smart or foolish?

To complicate matters the mental uncertainty has led to come emotional anxiety that has fogged up my perceptions.

So I request your best prayers.

May God grant me his wisdom from above. What is best to do or not do?

If it is just a glitch from a very old injury then may God guide and bless my body to completely and quickly heal that.

If I am guided to go to a specialist then which one and when?

THANKFULLY all my life I have been very healthy. I have rarely had pains like this in my body.

During the past, I have requested prayers and witnessed many answers, so I expect the same this time.

Shalom
John