Every morning for the past eighteen months, my right shoulder has been the first thing to remind me it exists. Not in a good way. I’d roll over in bed and feel that familiar deep, grinding ache radiating from the…
Every morning for the past two years, my left knee greeted me like a rusty hinge. The moment my feet hit the floor, I’d feel that deep, grinding stiffness radiating from just below my kneecap — not sharp enough to…
Every single morning for the past three years, getting out of bed felt like a negotiation with my own body. I have two herniated discs in my lumbar spine — L4-L5 and L5-S1 — and on bad days, the dull,…
Last February, I hit what I can only describe as the worst heated knee brace flare-up stretch I had experienced in three years of living with knee osteoarthritis. For eleven consecutive days, my left knee was swollen, stiff by 6…
Every morning for the past three years, the first thing I noticed when I woke up was my thumbs. Not a dramatic, cry-out-loud kind of pain — more like a deep, grinding stiffness that radiated from the base of each…
