The Arthritis Healer

Lessons from excruciating pain

Around four decades ago I was one day jogging through the woods in the dead middle of winter in New Jersey. The ground was covered by snow and ice. Suddenly, my left foot hit a patch of ice and it furiously spun around. I went flying through the air and landed on my back in unbelievable pain. Getting up on my elbows, I looked down at my body and saw that my left leg was facing backwards!

My inner warrior was gravely wounded.

I suffered a complete spiral femur fracture. Usually it takes a freak skiing accident to do that. The femur bone broke just above the left knee. I ended up in the hospital in traction for six weeks. That was followed by eight weeks in a walking cast which was followed by physical therapy.

Medical technology was not as advanced then as it is now. There are much better types of casts now. Back then they just put your whole darn leg in a cast. So for over three months my left ankle was in a cast and never moved the whole time. When the walking cast finally came off my ankle was frozen. I could not move it at all!

With time, physical therapy and lots of walking my leg in the knee area finally healed from the gruesome fracture and my ankle finally healed from not moving for over three months. Before long there was no pain whatsoever and I…