Thank you, I appreciate your reply. Would have replied sooner, but never got a big enough span of time to do so thoughtfully. It’s one of the three half days my boss is kind enough to work me, even though a seven year old would be a better choice when it comes to physical work. Thankfully my brain hasn’t been hampered and he can find value in it enough to allow for the shortcomings of the physical. That and he’s a good guy. Sounds like you’ve been through the ringer! I’m only a year into it and don’t know how much more of it I can take. I can’t imagine 27 years of it! End of last spring I did have a slight bit of a respite, enough for me to get some blacksmithing projects done that I had been paid for and promised to get finished. Boy I had to learn new and convoluted ways of doing things to get them done. A lighter hammer being one of them and that required more heats so more time, more blows. Physically it did help me to a degree, but it was so very painful afterwards each day. Pain so bad I couldn’t sleep. As summer came on the heat just dragged me down. A fatigue that overwhelmed me was quick to follow. This summer has been rough on me. Weird because every morning I take a hot shower and do my stretches there. It really helps everywhere but my ankles. You’d think sit’n in the warm southwest sun would do the same, and it does to some degree, but not near as well as a hot shower. I don’t get that. Over the year I’ve spent a small fortune taking all the recommended non “Rockafeller” anti-inflammatories along with the you gotta let it build up in your system advice. Honestly, I can’t say a single one has relieved me of pain one iota. As for an anti-inflammatory diet as best I can, it doesn’t seem to matter. Within minutes of eating what’s not supposed to be inflammatory the pains begin. I’m at my wits end there. Lately though I’ve been trying to stick to a carnivore diet. So far little to no change. Beginning to think I must have gotten the Fauci “gain of function” special edition of this shit. Lol, on an interesting note, I recently read an article that said people with the Neanderthal gene experience pain to a much greater degree than those without. They theorized it might of been what led to their demise. Again, I do deeply appreciate your response and suggestions. Most people just don’t understand how brutal this shit is or what to even say about it, let alone what to do about it. Like yourself, I’ve found the “Rockafeller” adherents to be of very little help. Coming from the South, Virginia in fact, my grandmother would make pokeberry salads in the spring. We boys as lil’ fellers were always told not to eat the berries as they were poisonous. That’s all I knew about pokeberries. Having moved out west never saw them or thought of them again. A friend stumbled upon a jewtube clip about them while surfing prep’n videos. Turns out grandma neglected to inform us about the anti-inflammatory properties of the pokeberry! Evidently the Appalachian hill folk have been using the berries for hundreds of years to bring relief to RA sufferers. A seasonal berry so you need to either freeze or dehydrate them for year round use. Not many sellers of them online as you’ll see if you look. I’ve got some dehydrated ones coming from LA something or another. A seller or two on Etsy as well. A search of pokeberries on jewtube will show a farmer look’n fellow with ripe pokeberries if’n you care to seek out more info. Maybe you know of them? I’m gonna give them a try, I’ll let you know my thoughts on them after a bit with ‘em. I’ll try to edit this post tomorrow with the video. Again, thank you and God Bless! Oh yeah, and a good Neanderthal Ugg as well!