My year! WOW!

Hey Man!
It has almost been a year since the events of a lifetime has happened. Sometime in November of 2007 I noticed a swelling of my left foot and ankle. Since I had not been taking my blood pressure meds the doctor thought it could be that. So for about several weeks I took my medicine and then returned to the doctor. He said it looked like the gout. Also gout runs in my family so I didn't think anything odd about it. I was treated with steroids for my gout but the swelling just got worse. Meanwhile I was working with this swollen foot. My limp was getting worse. I was sent to another doctor and was treated for arthritis. I was told to buy some boots and that would help the matter. I bought all kinds of boots but it did not help. My limp got worse and so did the pain.
I now went to an orthopedic and he took all kinds of x-rays and after a month of testing he said I might have a blood disease. Now my limp was in the severe stage but I was still working with it. I went to two other doctors and then finally I was sent to a podiatrist who took some x-rays and told me I had broken joints in my foot. He asked me how I broke them, by then I really had to think about it. At this time the swelling was much worse and instead of limping I was actually dragging my foot like that character Igor.
Since I have bad knees it wasn't hard to remember my only accident. I had a large object fall on my foot at work. But since so much time had passed I called my job to ask about it. I was told that they would have to investigate it. So I did not do anything. My next visit at the same podiatrist doctor, he again asked how I hurt the foot. I told him about the object falling on my foot at work. He said that sounded like that could have been it. Meanwhile I had walked on it for about five months making it unbearable to walk on by now.
After my operation my doctor said it was a disease of the foot since it was much worse then he had thought. I really believe that he did not consider how long I had walked on the injured foot. I believe that would make the doctors seem like they did not know what they were talking about. And through my adventures I saw that doctors do stick together even though they are wrong.
This march it will be one year that I was diagnosed with broken joints in my foot. I lost my job of over 19 years from it since I was unable to return to work before three months. But if they found my injury earlier I know it would not of been as bad. How do I know that? I watched the swelling get worse each month I walked on my foot. Even the people at my job saw me go from limping to dragging the foot and holding onto the walls for balance.
Also this march I go to court to find the outcome of hurting my foot and seeing who is to take the blame for my injury that kept getting worse since no one could diagnose my injury so in turn I could not tell my job what I had officially. I have not gotten another job as of yet. My retirement is taking me through this ordeal, as of now. So we will soon see what happens next.