I've had pain in my heel for about a month, which has gotten progressively worse. This last weekend I could hardly walk on it. Infact, I couldn't walk on it at all the first 15 minutes or so after I got up in the morning. I had to ease into it.

Yesterday I went to the foot doctor and he diagnosed me with a fairly common problem. Plantars fascitis. Then he proceeded to stick a long needle in my heel and shove it full of cortizone. Talk about painful. I sure hope it works. Today I'm still hobbling but at least it isn't throbbing and constantly sore. (which has been keeping me awake at night)

A weird thing about this: they took my blood pressure yesterday and it was high. I've always had extremely low blood pressure. It was still within normal limits but on the high end. I've heard that pain can cause your blood pressure to go up.

It's a great excuse to stay home from work, stay off of it, catch up on my rest and write all day long. I'm getting another cup of coffee right now. Along with some ice to put on it.