Sory, may have given you the wrong impression...only on those 9-10 hour shift 1-2 days a week, and one day is about 5-6 hours. The problem is that they are consecutive days, Sun/Mon/Tues with the long on at the end of the rotation, so by Tuesday night I am pretty sore. My foot/ankle used to get sore, but not unbearably so, and a couple of ibuprofen would take most of the pain away, but now it is painful alol the time, even if I don't do any walking or standing....if I get up out of the chair and stand on the foot it hurts. Something has changed and made it worse, probably wore out something in the fusion or elsewhere. I was on my feet a lot this summer and fall and did a lot of climbing and lifting as I was building a log cabin, but I didn't do anything unusually difficult. I am hoping an x-ray might show something. My amkle and part way up my leg were really puffed up and swollen and a bit red colored last evening when I got home, but was back to normal in the am.