Love your yard and garden(s)! I'm green with envy. We currently live in an old building...upstairs apt type thing. No yard, nothing like that. I walk out my front door and it's sidewalk and street. Back door is an alley. Sigh. I miss my yard. Hope the knee recovers quickly.

don't envy too much...
 

This garden is a huge pain generator! LOLOL

It took me about 20 yrs to get it to this stage. Tons of work!

Most of what I do is seed and cuttings. I don't spend much $$ on it. Only pain!

My son came here for 2 days... once in the beginning and once 2 wks ago to help
with the heaviest lifting. (we used to do this ourselves...sigh)

The knee flamed up around 1997... When I finally went in 1999 to an ortho...he
wanted to do a replacement. I avoided that with SAMe....have taken it ever since.
But it does not prevent all pain, if I overdo etc. I don't have the severe pain or
need the brace anymore. But I am sometimes reminded of my age and deterioration
by tasks like this one has been!

Update!!
 

I had the unfortunate experience of developing a fibroma in the arch of my left foot and as my luck would have it, it was misdiagnosed as plantar fasciitis. I was sent to PT as a last ditch effort and the PT and the assistant kept making comments about my foot which I didn't understand. So I made an appointment with the doc and went back to ask for an MRI. What a complete waste as the MRI didn't show a thing. I made an appointment with another doc and he diagnosed the fibroma and did surgery to remove it. I continued to have pain and problems with the foot so back to new doc and I was diagnosed with Mortons' neuroma and three hammertoes as a result of the fibroma causing more pronation, etc...and the neuroma also has a part in the hammertoes. I was forced to endure another round of five or six alcohol injections without any relief. Post surgical condition of my foot is awful. I walk with pain and I'm trying to force myself to keep walking in spite of it, with PN too.

I'm posting to educate anyone looking for info. Please research your doctors and don't rely on licensing agencies or other docs to assist when confronted with these sort of careless errors. Also, there are times when you don't have any choice but to have the neuroma removed, as in my cases, they really had to go. IMHO alcohol injections don't work.

Hi EE03,

I'm sorry to hear about everything with your poor feet. Getting the right diagnosis can be a real challenge sometimes.

I too had a plantar fibroma. Mine had to be removed twice surgically and I ended up wishing I had known about getting radiation to them before the first procedure. If, heaven forbid, yours starts to grown again there are radiation oncologists who take care of these. I did this after mine came back the third time and had good results.

I saw earlier on this post that you were wearing Birks. Are those still working for you with the fibroma area? My ability to tolerate arch support is completely different with all the scar and such. I have had to try a lot of new things shoe wise to find what works for my re-vamped foot.

My post-op recovery was much longer than probably expected and I still get swelling 18 months out. So hang in there if your surgery was not that long ago and don't overdo.

I hope more healing comes your way. :hug:

Littlepaw, aside from speaking to my sister who had two fibromas removed around 40 years ago, you're the only person I know of who has experienced this. I was never told about radiation therapy for this. Mine has been growing over a number of years,, I think around seven since I first noticed, but it got so bad that it hurt 24/7 whether I was on my feet or off. Its really sad that it aggravated my sleeping neuromas in my left foot I still have one in there and I hope it stays quiet. After my first go around with the right foot, I lived in Birks. Now I never now what my feet will tolerate from day to day, morning till night. Its really frustrating. I still get swelling as well. Anyway, than you for sharing your experience with me My journey with this isnt finished yet as I'm sure I'll need another surgery to fix what the second doc did.

I had surgery on my right foot for MN 2 years ago. Mine was huge and easy to diagnose. At the time I didn't know about my PN so there was nothing special done in terms of anesthesia. (tho surgeon did comment that even under general, when he touched the nerve I kicked him :p). I chose not to do the nerve cutting surgery, as I've had other nerve surgeries and know that it can often be out of the frying pan into the fire. My doc removed the tumor part and put some artificial padding between the nerve and bone. I was pain-free for 2 years. Now, yes, the foot I had operated on hurts a bit more than the other, but there's no way of knowing whether it's PN or returning Mortons. My point here is that the PN wasn't made worse by the surgery.

Interestingly, my feet hurt much more in flats than they do in 1.5" heels. I think b/c my toe joints flex in flats.

My PN hasn't been impacted at all by the surgery. My neuromas were all easy to identify and palpate by the time surgery was required. I've never been told that they could be left either as they were clearly swollen to three to four times their normal size when mine were removed. Your experience is the first I've read of this type.