Getting old SUCKS

It's official.. Between turning 45 in 2009 and this damn Mercury Retrograde, I have had a string of pain and bad crap. I am officially getting old! My arthritis has been awful. I went to the doc, got new meds for pain and inflammation. I have been in an unmanageable amount of pain. Well, the new meds kicked in after only a couple of days and I started to feel some relief, although I was still walking like the tin man, which sucks. I hate limping and I hate making a scene. Well, I was out in my "soap room" the other night. I am still pretty "gimped up", but I was feeling a huge amount of gratification from helping my husband and my son, which was doing wonders for my mood. We had made 3 batches of soap (I did little of the work) and we were organizing and cleaning the store room, when I turned to the right while standing still and heard a loud "POP" and a cracking sound. The pain was immediate and excruciating, and I actually yelled out! My husband came running and I was barely able to mumble "hurt my knee" to him. Oh man... it hurt like HELL. After a few minutes, Bill helped me hobble over to a chair and I sat down. My poor old knee started swelling immediately and it was hurting still so much that I could barely handle it. We iced it which helped reduce the pain and swelling some, and I was able to hobble to the bedroom. I felt like I should go to the ER but the copays are so high anymore that I decided to tough it out. I called the consulting nurse for my doctor and she made me an appointment for early the next morning, which was good. I didn't sleep much, but it did feel a little better when I got up in the morning. The doc ordered an MRI which I will have next Saturday. In the meantime I have to hobble around and try to rest it as much as possible. I'm still shaking my head at how stupid it is for me to injure myself this much STANDING STILL. Grrrrr.....