I should cut off my leg,it would be cheaper....

Finally broke down and went to visit the podiatrist. I looked him up in my health provider list and cross reference him with a co-worker that had a mean case of plantar facialitis. it took her no time it seemed. She was administered a cortisone shot once a week I believe for about five weeks and now she doing great.
He found that I had an issue with the muscle that ran between the big toe and second toe. I was not surprised because that is just where I felt my pain in addition to the ball of foot joint referral pain. I survived the shot only because I had to be a big girl in front of my eight year old daughter. It was swollen for a little under a week. I have given away all my heels because of this. I do not know what was more painful, the foot pain or getting rid of my shoes.
To add I received my bill and I owe the Doctor almost two hundred dollars in addition to the ninety I paid him. Just for a f***##@! cortisone shot. What the hell is insurance for? Then I read a blog where another person got synivist injected into her knee and the bill was over eight hundred dollars and all covered by her insurance company.
I am over insurances and high price doctors. It cost less to cut off my leg than to get a cortisone shot.
In the meantime things are moving slowly in term of improvements. I have introduced resistive stretching into my routine. I have to say I am excited about them. It has brought to my attention how tight and restrictive my left hip still is. Especially the hip flexor stretches. These stretches go beyond the gym class stretches. You would have to go to her site to read up some more on them.
Did a nice thirty minutes run in the parking lot before boxing today and have to admit that I am super sore in all the knee connections. And my left QLs and periformis muscles are objecting. And I respect those muscles very much. Cannot wait to get pass this lower back issue soI can concentrate on my lagging left hip. But I would gladly reverse it as well. Lol