SharonAnne -- Cortisone shot not so bad -- over with quickly. No worse than novacaine. But if it works right, the comfort is well worth it afterwards! Just don't look.
Totally off subject -- our African Spur land tortoise, who weighs in at about 34 lbs now, has started laying eggs. At least now we know for sure that "Ingrid" is really "Ingrid" and not "Otto". They are really hard to determine gender until they become mature. Her eggs are the size of a small chicken egg, same shape, pure white. She lays about two every other day or so -- we've found 10 so far. Now just think about it -- a body trapped in a hard shell pushing out eggs the size of its head -- ouch! How do they all fit inside? And my daughter who is almost 6 months pregnant thinks that she's uncomfortable. Poor Ingrid.