New Hope

 Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Today's Date: 4-29-2022

It has been a day of adventures for sure. But let us start at the beginning. The OFM was up early this morning and gimped around a bit then ate breakfast watching it get lighter outside. Finally he declared it light enough to attempt a walk at the Beach Park and away we went.

We went into the park about half way and parked Sierra at the restroom buildings. The OFM legs were not doing well again today so we had little hope of a good walk and we were right. From the building upper floor we took this nice picture of the early morning beach scene. It looked nice and felt nice for a good walk. 

Then we cut over to a path that goes onto the beach to see if we could walk the beach.

NOPE. The loose sand was just too much for the OFM balance and joint pains. So we cut back to the pavement and walked for a bit. This wade fisherman was wading Little Bay. He had chosen a good location but we did not wait to see if he got into some action or not.

We turned back to Sierra right after we got to the wade fisherman. Then took Sierra back to the Castle and wobbled our way into Sierra. It was time for Internet research about the OFM's current physical difficulties.

  After several hours of research we found the answer we were looking for. A site we were referred to had some diagnostic charts to lead you to your problem and the answer.

So the OFM started looking at the diagnostic question listing. The short version is we found a very likely cause of our trouble. This diagnostic list had seven items on it. The list read like the OFM had written the list from his list of pains etc. The OFM read down the list of items and at each one he mentally checked it off as one of his symptoms. He was astounded at the list and his body being in such total agreement. It is a form of early arthritis caused by excessive abuse or injury to the joint tissues. The good news is that the treatment is regular use of ibuprofen or other NSAID drug. 

That even agreed with our experience that ibuprofen helped the OFM get around better for a little while. The difference is the quantity of ibuprofen we can use.

The OFM had always worried about taking too much ibuprofen and causing internal damage to himself. Well this article and the others on ibuprofen say that he can have the ibuprofen more often during the day on a regular basis depending on a couple of factors.

So we took our first new dosage late this afternoon and the OFM soon was walking considerably better than in the last couple of years. WOW that was nice. It was really nice to walk into the restaurant like a regular human instead of waddling like a lame duck. And the Chicken Fried Steak even tasted better.

A very important part of this is that there is no pain or grinding of the bone part of the joints. That would be a much bigger trouble.

Another caution is this is not a repair and the trouble will continue to get worse but at a lot slower pace and eventually need doctor care.

We have great hopes that this will allow the OFM Teams to increase the types of things we can do for trying to have tooooo much fun gently.