Testimony of Healing January 16, 2012 Issue

Healing of severe leg pain

Claude C. Smith, Jr.

I work for a distributor of ten different daily or weekly newspapers. This work is done inside the distribution facility in a northwest suburb of Chicago. It involves standing almost all the time while I’m working with the newspapers, collating and bagging the sections and getting tables ready for the delivery personnel so they can more speedily leave the building on Sunday morning.

Sessions that start around noon on Friday often last until about noon on Saturday. Except for a few short breaks, I am standing and moving about as I do my work. This is tiring, but caused me no physical trouble until about six months ago. 

One day my right leg pained me so much that I had to take very frequent breaks. The muscles in my leg felt sore and the knee joint was very painful. I hobbled around and even tried to put some of my weight on a stool, thinking it might ease the discomfort. This did nothing but slow down my work. By the end of the weekend, I was very fearful that I might be getting arthritis or some such thing. 

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