<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/knee-painoct14.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2048" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/knee-painoct14-200x160.jpg" alt="knee-pain(oct14)" width="200" height="160" /></a>For the past few weeks I've been suffering with knee pain and I don't do pain. It started off quite mild but I thought I'd visit the doctor (an alien concept until I hit 60) just in case and he said keep exercising it. Within days of the visit (and after some exercise) I was in excruciating pain and could barely walk upstairs. Another visit to the doctor and he's now referred me for physiotherapy.

Despite taking <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol" target="_blank">paracetamol</a> four times a day and rubbing in <a href="https://www.voltarol.co.uk/products" target="_blank">Voltarol</a> three times a day the pain persists to the point where I can barely walk more than a few metres. I keep trying but at the moment I soon grind to a halt. The doctor thinks it's a torn ligament so even with physio it isn't going to be a miracle cure. I confess to feeling a little sorry for myself and depressed that I cannot accompany Jane when she's feeling so good at the moment.