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July 27, 2006
Another setback
I am really pretty down about my leg. Yesterday and the day before it was less painful walking around--I was not jumping for joy, but I was thinking that something was helping me. But when I woke up this morning, it was hurting again. It's always easy to tell if it's bothering me more because my flexibility and range of motion decreases markedly. I limped the 12-minute walk to catch my bus and had to run a few steps to make sure the bus didn't leave without me. Those few steps KILLED and then when I got off the bus, I could barely walk. I limped over to the gym (now that I've joined the Georgetown gym it's just easier to swim there and then go to work) and managed to swim but I couldn't even do a little kicking--only pulling. I was in a lot of pain after that and all day. I didn't have to do a huge amount of walking but even getting up from sitting hurts.
I do have a PT appointment tomorrow, but I'm really concerned that something more serious is going on. I mean, this is the tenth week since I first started feeling this injury. Many people (Alison comes to mind, as I remember a convo we had on the run about this) have told me that some injuries take months and months to heal. True, but if this one is really just tendonitis, it's strange since both my achilles and popliteal tendonitis followed a pretty "normal" healing pattern.
In any case, I stretched a lot later on at the gym and will foam roll and possibly take a hot bath tonight. I really miss running, but I hate being in pain even more. Sigh...on the positive side, Matt is going to prepare most of our dinner tonight, so a big shout-out to him! Must go supervise.
Posted by becky at July 27, 2006 8:02 PM
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I'll write you a real e-mail soon, but I just wanted to say I'm very sad that your injury is lasting this long. Are there any other types of doctors you could see? Or could you get an MRI? The lack of patterns here (what makes it hurt, what makes it better) is somewhat baffling. If there's something which you're not aware of that you're doing on a daily basis that's hurting it more (like the way you get up from sitting, or anything) it would be good to identify that. I'm frustrated for you. I'm sharing your pain, and I wish I could do something to help!
Posted by: Alison at July 27, 2006 11:02 PM