Something is still not quite right.....

It's now been almost four years since I fell and injured my left ankle and knee. I had the ankle surgery in March 2010 and the knee done in about August of the same year.

I have been working as an Owner Driver Courier here in Sydney, as well as doing country work for two seperate companies. Sydney traffic is a hard slog on a good day, and when a driver is being paid by the delivery, and not by the hour it can be very difficult to make a decent wage after expenses. Anyone who does what I do will understand.

I have been deliberately staying of the tramadol medication as much as I can, and only give in as a last resort. That's usually when the left ankle & knee, and the right lower back, buttock, thigh and knee all start giving me grief at the same time. Then I get re-acqainted with tramadol :-/

I was recently given an opportunity to regain full time employment as an Employee at a local company driving bulk tip trucks. Would have been perfect, ten minutes from home to the yard, no manual handling at all, no parking hassles or CBD traffic. I have been driving my manual utes for hours a day and just tolerating the pain by days' end.

I thought I could still drive  trucks OK even with the left ankle and knee how they are but I was wrong, I don't have the stamina or the fine motor control to engage the heavy clutch smoothly-and I didn't want to damage the vehicle. Bummer.

So I was only away from the Courier work for two days, I'm back into it again. :-(