not the left knee, I hope

My temperature was only 37.2C/99.0F this morning. I wore long clothes in the morning to stay warm, because I felt cool still. By afternoon, I took off the long sleeve shirt. After work, I felt well enough to finally get outside and do some gardening.

I'm pretty sure I'm developing arthritis in both feet. The pain is similar but still in the developing stage. My left knee, though. I had to stop gardening because I kept grimacing and audibly "ow"-ing whenever I had to stand up. It's a sharp pain like arthritis, but it doesn't feel quite as concentrated and pointy as arthritis. Hopefully it's just a result of being unfit, and it will heal into good shape soon.

If it ends up being arthritis, then I'll probably have to sell my house. Yuck. I can't keep up the yard without good knees. I can deal with the rest of it, even the feet, I think. Knees, though... I don't want to be so old that I can't garden. I don't want to sell my house to somebody who'll just put in a grass yard. I want all of this effort to continue keeping pollinators around.

For now... good thoughts. Rest for now, not aggravating the knee. At least until tomorrow after work, when I'll I return to the garden to remove more grass that shouldn't be there. Today, I disturbed some large flower bulbs whose sprouts hadn't yet broken the surface. Good thoughts for them too. I hope I didn't damage anything important while trying to keep my yard in fair condition for city inspectors who drive around occasionally.

It fascinates me that this whole-body arthritis flare-up seemed triggered by that pneumococcal vaccine. I went searching just now, and this Arthritis Foundation webpage recommends getting the vaccine "... or when your arthritis isn't active". What's up with that?