Darn Knee

 My darn knee!   I am trying to come to terms with living in pain again.  

Not that I'm not used to it.  The good thing is my knee really only hurts when I drive and at night.  

Its just that I so much wanted to enjoy the summer and go camping, if possible, go to lakes often.   I may ignore the pain and do it anyway.   The pain involved is getting to the lake, the driving.

I had xrays done yesterday but don't know the results and its quite possible they will show nothing, as its likely soft tissue injury.   

I had to go and get the born in trap kittens.   The workplace trapper could no longer care for them.  She'd been fostering them and they were the ones supposed to get fixed Monday then go to her aunt.  But her aunt is now moving out of her mother's place.   Her aunt's elderly cat loving mother will still care for the adults that have gone there from her great niece's workplace. But her aunt doesn't believe her elderly mom can also care for five kittens.  

The workplace trapper had taken in two kids, one an infant, just born, to a friend of hers who is also an addict.  The addict vanished after the infant was born, back to drugs, and the kids were in need of foster then, and she and her husband, like saints, took them.  But that's a lot to take on--two more kids, one an infant.  She couldn't also take care of those kittens.  An employee at the vet clinic took them on.  I picked them up and took them over on Wednesday.  Just taking them over to Corvallis and driving back was extremely painful on my knee.  I made the doctors appointment for yesterday, after that, realizing something is really wrong and I need to be able to drive.

 I put a wedge cushion in my car seat, which is supposed to elevate hips slightly over knees when driving in a car without adequate seat adjustment capacity.   But the inch high wedge wasn't enough.  Yesterday I put a cushion under the wedge, which significantly increased my knee angle on the gas pedal.   I only drove to the doctor's office yesterday and home with that set up but am hoping with my knee angle now increased closer to the recommended 120 degrees, instead of what was going on, with a 45 degree angle, my pain could ease up some.

I mowed the front lawn yesterday.   My knee doesn't hurt with walking.  Nor does it hurt mowing the lawn.  Usually mowing inflames my back too, a day or two later.  I assume it will inflame my knee by today or tomorrow.   But it had to be done.   Neighbors, you know.

Almost all my traps are loaned out now.  8 went to one party alone.  But they only caught three cats to be fixed last week.   Thursday I think it was.   They said construction noise next door (new development going in) has spooked the cats.  They got three more appointments, at later date.  I am not sure how many in all they need to catch.   Both my drop traps are loaned out to two different parties.  One party has one of my smaller traps also.   And yesterday I loaned out two more traps.  I feel a little bit naked without a drop trap here, at the ready to be used if needed.

I have five spots Monday, in Salem, my last spots for the summer.   I am hoping the folks with one drop trap, can catch the mom and her kittens, using it, tomorrow.   I'd take the mom to be fixed Monday, if they do.  They want to tame the four kittens and find them homes.

The folks who borrowed two traps, have two boys they want to catch.  Hopefully they will be successful.

Then the good old trailer park--lady there had an unfixed female.  So I offered to take her up.  Well, she says that cat is "in foster" whatever that means, but now she has another male.  I've already gotten four cats fixed for her.  Then she suddenly has a female, now gone, and now another male?  I think she might be a fake rescuer, one who takes in cats but doesn't provide any medical of any sort, then hands them out.   I don't know that for sure.

But a guy in the park I'd sent photos to, awhile back, of cats near his place, to suggest he had some he feeds that need fixed, had responded then that they were all fixed cats from neighbors, but now he has kittens under his place.  I told him to catch the mom this weekend.

None of these folks are supposed to contain their cats til tomorrow, so I don't have to hold their cats.  Its only supposed to get up to 71 degrees today, so the garage should not end up very hot.  

Maybe I'll have five cats to take Monday, for my last appointments, and maybe I won't.

Yesterday on my fb page, I posted about my knee issues.  I should expect nothing from fb posting.  My fb friends are for the most part people I never see in person or who live far away.  One in particular, is a "you need to" do this or that type, and there's nothing that turns my stomach like the "you need to" comment people.