You are welcome to borrow.

I remember hearing the old saying, “the squeaky wheel gets the oil” when I was younger and thinking it was silly, but life tends to step up show you why some saying become enduring advice.

And, thanks for all the fun stories, I don’t know where to begin. Every time I see a new comment notice in my e-mail, I keep jumping over to see what kooky fables you guys have cooked up and cracking up re-reading them all.

I think I am going to have to rotate them all and see what gets the biggest dropped jaws and belly-laughs!

As for a story, tell them a homeless person rode over your foot with their shopping cart. (Uh oh, I hope Natasha didn’t read that.)

Great story. It cracked a smile on my face because it helped me relive a similar success I had with a failed medical system.

Back many years ago, through high school and college, (much before the internet), I had a somewhat rare condition called hyperhidrosis which causes people to uncontrollably sweat. In my case, my palms literally dripped with sweat 24 hours a day. It was truly a miserable joke for someone like me who is outgoing and rarely nervous.

So besides getting a lot of what you experienced from many well-compensated doctors and specialists such as “I don’t know what’s wrong with you”, I also got a lot of memorable advice like “try imagining people you’re talking with are naked, then maybe you won’t be so nervous”.

Long story short, my undying search for an explanation let to my awareness that the condition actually exists within certain populations…and that there is a surgical cure.

I found a qualified surgeon, convinced my insurance company to cover the cost, and within minutes of waking up from the procedure, realized that my life had turned an amazingly positive corner that I knew, I knew had to exist.

Don’t give up. A little healthy cynicism and an unwillingness to accept “I don’t know” often leads to some of the greatest rewards.

But I had to comment on the gist of the post. SO true and also not unusual. I can not tell you how many times that I have not taken ” I don’t know” for an answer. Nobody is going to be more invested in curing your pain than you are, so it is well worth searching out every resource until it is solved.

I was a nurse once and can appreciate medical doctors, but I have also found alternative practitioners sometimes solving things which medical doctors ( or dentists) have sworn could not be fixed. Sometimes it is not even logical.

I crushed my knee running in the woods some years ago ( I also broke my femur in the same fall, so you know it was a hard one as it usually takes a car wreck to break that bone like I did). I fell in such a way that my knee bent the opposite way that knees bend. I had years of pain, wheel chairs, crutches and surgeries ( including one by the famous doc who did Joe Montana and Jerry Rice’s injured joints).

The thing that helped me most was some energetic healing. How energetic healing can help a structural problem is certainly a mystery to me, but I was desperate and it worked.

I think the moral of the story is if one can not get the answer from thorough investigation from the top medical people, then start searching out the top and highly recommended alternative physicians. Keep going until an impossible answer is found.

Today, I am walking all over Europe and grateful to have those painful years behind me.

Glad you did the right thing! Heal quickly!

I love your spirit and willingness to not settle.

Vicky H

Maybe the idea that the cast is your choice of weapon to use on people who offer only “I dunno.”

The kickers is they put them back in by slamming my body into an ER table (no drugs)…I screamed for 30 secs and then it felt sooooo much better. (then I was sore for 3 months but who’s counting!)

To your other note….stories…

* got bitten by a lake shark while trying to save a little girl (yes, I know, there are no lake sharks…thats the fun part)

* broke it while using your trapeze (you can figure out why you had a trapeze)

* you got shot in the ankle while trying to foil a robbery

* nothing is wrong with your foot, you use the cast to hide money

* your pant leg got sucked into an escalator which tore your foot off….you had to have it surgically reattached.

* your daughter ran over your foot with the car (she is driving at a VERY young age..

if more come to me, I will let you know
Cheers and be well,
Ken