Sore, Swollen Left Leg

Don't know how I ended up with a sore, swollen left leg.  Tuesday night, when I did my calf stretch, I felt a twinge in my left leg but it was fine on the LL hike Wednesday and didn't start hurting and swelling until Wednesday afternoon.  The left calf was 1 1/4" more in circumference than the right one yesterday.  I saw a doctor yesterday evening.  He doubted it was a deep vein thrombosis but said get a doppler ultrasound to rule it out.  He thought it's more likely a calf muscle tear.

My leg felt a little better today and is less swollen and sore so I didn't bother with the doppler ultrasound which isn't terribly reliable anyway for diagnosing calf thromboses.  Usually, calf thromboses don't cause pulmonary emboli.  If it's a thrombosis, I doubt it will kill me.  If it's instead truly a calf tear, it will take a while to heal.  The odd thing is that it doesn't feel horrible to walk on it but stiffens up when I'm sitting down for a while.

I had written a blog draft bemoaning my husband's neglect of his health but maybe it's more my health I should worry about. 

I hiked with the WRSC group to Guaje Pines Cemetery and back.  Spouse invited two of his coworkers, one who is moving back to Nebraska.  They are in their 40's.  They were polite but it was hard to tell if they honestly enjoyed hiking with us old folks!

I am working on matchmaking for our widower in the WRSC group.  I met a widow in her 80's this summer who lives in Arizona and who would like to meet a man, I was told.  I've put in a phone call to her daughter to find out her contact info.  All this is with the consent of the widower.  Matchmaker, matchmaker:  make me a match!

Spouse has started worrying that our roof is going to collapse.  This is because he once heard a loud noise originating from the roof - perhaps bats in the belfry...  He has been pointing out to me deck separation at an undereave seam.  He says the longer life the shingles are, the heavier the roof will be on the rafters.  He's right about that and perhaps the roofer should have taken this into consideration but I don't think the roof is in danger of collapsing.  To humor him, I'll go up on the ladder this weekend and peer into the attic space above the big living room to see if I see any evidence of damage and to make sure everything below the ridge vent appears dry.

We had a small leak in the furnace room on Wednesday night during the big rains.  The roofer came out Thursday and replaced the furnace chimney cap.  Hope that will stop the leak!

Thought of this on the hike today:  The purpose of a relationship is to laugh and enjoy someone's company so much that you forget you're going to die one day.  Let's call this the Noir Theory of Relationships!