Hello! Not sure if it's the same tub, but we recently installed and are very happy with the Americh Bow acrylic (soaker, but it comes with other variations): https://www.americh.com/products.php?b=8&t=1 Still spendy, but under $2K with the usual discount off list. Tubs are made to order in SoCal so you need to allow ~ 3 weeks lead time. So tough to find these types of tubs, though I've seen the lower cast-iron versions in salvage yards. Good luck, I've been putting mine to frequent use after years of being unhappily tub-free!

It was some below zero F. around here this morning ... but is warming up a bit. Some snow, too ... coming down near horizontally, this afternoon: not nice weather in which to be out traipsing around. Glad I'm not dog-sitting, these days. Hi mush, Did you bundle the dog up, too? Or carry him/her in your backpack? Wouldn't want to get her/him too close to a fire, though, on your return: don't need a hot dog, just now. ole joyful ... hoping that the car works O.K. en route home

Oh, so many injuries have been recounted here, and then there are those who are blessed with none! The first significant injuries I recall were horseback riding accidents as a child - a concussion despite wearing a helmet, a cracked vertebrae, and a crushed right foot. While pregnant with DD2, I suffered cracked ribs in a car accident. I broke my left elbow falling down steps after rushing from work to home to look after kids, while en route to an evening master's class. I was in a bit of shock and went into the small class anyway not realizing how bedraggled I was (ripped stockings, bruised knees, broken glasses, etc.). The professor looked at me and said perhaps I should leave. I stuck it out, but by the end knew I couldn't drive and called my husband to pick me up. That pain took a good year to settle down. Last year I broke my left foot. Again too much rushing and a trip down a last step. We had just returned from a month in Spain and were dashing through jet lag to help DD2 who had given birth prematurely with lots of complications while we were away. Throw in the occasional broken toe and foot stress fractures. We get a lot of snow and ice here but that hasn't so far caused me problems, dare I say it. On really bad days I wear ice grips if I have to go out. One day this winter, DH, DD1 and DD3 each had falls on the ice. DD3 broke her wrist as a result. The others were a little sore but okay.

So you fell and banged up an already dodgy knee. Didn't have any pain so you went on like you always do. Now the knee is telling you it is wounded & to take it easy for a few days and to quit abusing it. I would continue w/ the NSAIDS on a regular schedule for the next 2-3 days and RICE. Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation. IME, Ace bandage for compression because you can customize it....unless you already own a knee sleeve that works good for you. I've tried a couple of different ones & they ended up being torture devices. **ETA--Stack up some pillows to elevate the knee when you go to bed at night & sleep w/ it elevated o/ night.