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Wow - sudden pain is your body's "red alert" warning system & should be heeded. Have you figured out the source?
I sympathize with the loss of gardening as a distraction. Maybe you need to do what I have done after 5 hip replacements, and now wearing-out knees - contract the heavy duty work like turning the garden to someone young. My grand nephews treat it like a workout, and they like the extra cash!
Also, I plant many of my veggies in straw bales, which involve no bending or kneeling, no digging (and little weeding). Then after 2 years, the bales collapse, and you plant right in the resulting compost, again with no digging. And all the herbs go in pots - big ones, that are part of the decor on my patio.
Sue
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You are lucky to have those helpers. I like the straw bale idea and may give it a go next season. My knees and feet are probably related to Lyme and its auxiliary diseases. I have had many strange health issues over the 30 years since I was infected and knee issues without radiographic images showing any major problem as well as negative arthritis blood test results. This last year and a half has been the longest stretch of knee/foot issues but they now seem to be improving. I can only hope I don't have a relapse of the worst of the worst Lyme which involve severe dizziness and the most painful headache anyone can have as well as inability to eat, drink, think, talk, etc. It has put me down for at least a week once or twice annually for about 5 or 6 years. I have been treated, but antibiotics are only helpful for a short time before issues resume and of course antibiotics have nasty side effects like yeast infections etc.