So with the Jeep stuffed with broken medical equipment to drop off at the main store’s service department (work related—just to get it out of my shop here in Newport), a new pair of sneakers and my VA card in hand, I’m off once again to the VA where it is hoped that the aforementioned clinic can fix my gimp.

The service related back injury I sustained way back when cocked my spine a tad which, of course, has worsened with age and as a result has thrown my hips out of whack. All this results in one leg gradually becoming slightly longer than the other and this really throws my golf game off–or it would if I actually played golf, but what it does do is put the hurts on my right hip. So now I’m traveling down to the VA’s podiatry clinic to see if they can find something that might compensate for this. I don’t need any more ache in my joints that aren’t already there as you might imagine.

Here’s to hoping.