Random Pain

The other day I started having this random pain in my foot.  This would be my left foot and the pain is kind of in the middle of the foot behind my last three toes.  That probably allows for many interpretations so I won't worry about it.  Suffice to say I have foot pain. 

I do recall hurting this particular foot back before my mission.  In fact I think it was a few months after I graduated from high school so we are talking 20 years ago.  I was out in the street playing soccer in my bare feet and stepped on the curb wrong.  I just remember something cracking in my foot and then a lot of pain.  I didn't think much of it and just continued on with life enduring a little pain in my foot.  I remember after being in the mission field for a few months coming to the realization that the pain was gone.  That was a neat thing to realize.

So now the pain is back, just out of the blue.  Is this sudden appearance of pain a sign of age?  Is it a message that I am not too far away from 40?  Perhaps an arthritic foot?  Oh crap, I am getting older.  Pretty soon I'll have hair growing out of my ears and nostrils.  Maybe I already do and just don't know it.  As if the random foot pain wasn't enough when I got up this morning I had pain in my right leg.  I seriously don't know of anything I have done in recent days that would warrant the kind of sudden pain.  We will press on.  I can take it. 

So in other Random Pain moments I told the kids about the time I had to lay a bit of Random Pain on Moses the dog.  I role played the sudden attack for them and then told them how I fended him off with a few blows and then a shovel handle for good measure.  Jack thought it was hilarious and was very excited about it.  One of the neat things about telling Jack a story is that within a few minutes he has it pretty well memorized and he begins telling you the story usually with a "do you remember when' or ten.  It is great.