Fat causes pain

I started a physically demanding job, even though I'm quite out of shape and overweight. I thought that it might help. It was only part time and didn't seem soooo physically demanding when I started.

Take the dogs out of the cage outside to the bathroom.

Put the dogs back in the cage.

Feed.

Water. 

Repeat.

Clean up afterwards.

Sounds pretty easy. That was when it was 20 dogs with 2 people. I pushed myself through the ache in my feet, sometimes my knees. It was a normal ache. Pain I should have from walking all day. Normal, normal achiness.

Then we got to over 100 dogs and still 2 people. I had to take more breaks, it took us sooo much longer and my feet started to really hurt. My wrists hurt too, and my thumbs. My toes suddenly started to hurt too. Then I had to sit down. Another worker came by to pick up slack. By the end of the day I was in tears.

I didn't get up again. I couldn't walk the next day. I tried soaking in epson salt. I was on 3 pills of aleve. My feet were so swollen that I couldn't get shoes on. I felt like I was walking on broken glass. I called in, I couldn't come in. I told my boss I was going to the doctors.  

Every joint in my body hurt. 

The doctor pressed on all my joints, and I wanted to punch him in the face. He was worried with all my other issues that I might have RA (Rheumatoid arthritis), or some equally serious issues. I told him what was going on at work, the hours, etc. He gave me a note for a week off from work, but in the long run I may have to quit.

In all honestly, I was thinking about quitting anyway.  The other workers talked about quitting 'staging an intervention' like they did last summer about not having enough workers on staff for the amount of dogs and not giving breaks and working them too many hours, or not enough hours. Hearing this I wanted to quit anyway. I really didn't need a headache, but I was planning to last through the holiday weekend. With the week off I needed, that wasn't going to happen.

So I quit. I called up and told her that the doctor gave me a week off. However in the long term he doesn't think this position is right for me. I apparently have some serious issues going on and need to take care of them. I apologized for the inconvenience and we said goodbye. It was actually hard for me. I liked my job, what I was doing, not who I was doing it for.

My pain pills ran out a couple of days later. My regular physician doesn't have any appointments available. So off to the walk-in clinic. I had to drive myself. Saw a different doctor this time. My test results came back, no inflammation, no RA, no Arthritis, all normal test results! He thinks that it may be my weight. Tests for tick-borne illnesses although he feels it is less likely because I don't have a fever.

Yesterday, my husband forgot my pain pills. So, I've only had two Aleve. I hurt but not as much as I previously did. I feel like I can walk a little bit more without pain. Maybe I just am a fat lady who worked herself too hard trying to act like I wasn't 300lbs and living a sedentary lifestyle before I starting walking 10 miles a day 4-5 days a week for a month.

My feet still hurt. I was tossing and turning from pain all night, but I got through it. I'll take a shower today and go to the pool and chill out for a while. Hopefully my husband won't forget the pain pills this time.