I was going to say that if you start talking about health problems, that thread could propagate indefinitely with the average age of pbs members. My plantar fasciitis experiences are legion; and at the risk of mansplaining, I will impart the little knowledge I have gleaned. First, they usually give you two options - physical therapy or cortisone shots. The physical therapy generally does nothing although you can acquire a bunch of large colorful rubber bands used for various stretching exercises. They will tell you the cortisone shots don't hurt too much and that may be true for some people... After wasting a couple months on physical therapy, I agreed to the shots (a series of two, about a week or two apart). Now, if you can recall the way a dentist inserts the novocain needle and partially withdraws it and sort of fishes around, injecting a little here and a little there, it's sort of like that but everything's about ten times as big. So, after the first shot, I was substantially less gullible but realized in two weeks it would happen again. At this point, I told my PCP that I needed something to give me a substantially altered state of mind for the second shot and he prescribed xanax which may have helped but I slept for 20 hours afterwards, which isn't unusual. The single most useful bit of knowledge I got from the podiatrist was the actual nature of the injury. I had been doing some logging which involved jumping down from my tractor and climbing back up over and over and I assumed it was due to a sort of crush injury but this was not the case. The actual injury was a tension injury of the plantar fascia from landing on the ball/toe which violently stretched the plantar fascia. Now, I avoid anything that stretches the plantar fascia violently but periodically stretch it slowly while resting on the bed. The rubber bands are pretty useless for this but I found a nylon strap that fits as a loop over my shoulders down to my foot so I can stretch it for ten minutes without using muscle strength. Good luck. Life is tough when you have to regret every step you take. Tim On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 1:58 PM Jane McGary via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > I'm sorry that my private email to Robin Hansen ended up sent to the > list. I thought I had to click "Reply to list" to send it to the list, > so I just clicked "Reply" to send it to Robin alone. Apparently that > still sends it to the list. > > I apologize if I have exacerbated a discussion that was bound to be > controversial. > > Jane McGary > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…