I seriously thought a knee replacement was the toughest thing I had ever done. I thought I was finally over it and that I could, at last, return to racing. It seems not.
A couple of weeks ago I started relatively suddenly with pretty major calf pain (in my other leg). It was so bad that I could barely walk more than 10 metres at a stretch before having to sit down. Following this, in addition I started getting pins and needles in my foot, then this escalated to more major pain making the skin on my foot very very sensitive to touch, throbbing and stabbing pain, constantly for no apparent reason: making walking near on impossible. Continue reading “The tough road of neuropathic pain”