I have been so silent on the blog about work outs and diet. To be honest the past 5 weeks I have struggled focusing on changes, staying focused, and just motivated. I feel like if I wrote daily on the blog, which I like to do, but It would just be like “Today I am mad I am in a boot because __________” and just this awful broken record.
It is official, today I was given 4 more weeks in my walking cast! He was ready to book a surgery but I gave a plea for something else. Well, seeing as I have been wearing a hefty brace since the fall, 3x a week Physical Therapy for what seemed forever, steroids, and now the boot for 5 weeks…now 4 more!
There is a fluid buildup around my tendon still, and pain around the ankle and up in into my leg. I am looking back to when I thought I had posterior shin splints and just shaking my head.
When do you know?
I am thinking back to when the pain started high in the leg, and just hurt tremendously all the time. I would ice, and pop on some KT tape and keep on going. I have never had so many problems with my feet!! This is all too similar to when I was rowing in college, and it took a year to diagnose my torn labrum in my hip, and get surgery to repair something that would never repair itself. When I had that surgery I had not been rowing in over 6 months, and he said it was so torn up in there and other gross details that he would have thought I was rowing right up to the surgery it was so bad.
I used to joke that WebMD.com diagnosed me a year before my actual sports doctors did. I joked, but if you ask my then roommate it was totally true! Webmd took my random hip pains and besides diagnosing me with cancer and other random things the number 2 diagnosis was torn labrum. Now I did not hop on webmd this time, I feel I was diagnosed pretty quickly, just I ignored it and did my two half marathons anyways. This is sort of my fault, yet a mystery on how this initial injury happened so I am not taking the whole blame!
So it is super hot and humid, hard for me to walk around, but I am going to try to regroup and figure out how to stay active on the top half of my body a little better. This summer is going to be so long if I do not figure it out, especially since if surgery does happen and I will be totally non weight bearing for 4 weeks! Eek!
Have you been injured or unable to exercise before, how did you try and stay fit.
((HUGS)) I can only imagine how frustrated you are with the boot! Ugh! Maybe surgery wouldn’t be so bad since you’re already down with the boot? Just to get some relief and back on the mend! Wishing you a swift recovery in whatever you decide to do!
Injury sucks, plain and simple.
Is there a pool near you you can use? Gotta love water workouts when it’s warm, right?
I meant to comment on this last night when I read it but then time got away from me. Big hugs to you, girlie! I’m sorry that you’ve got another four weeks with the boot… I’d much rather basically anything besides surgery so I know how that goes.
I was going to suggest getting in the pool too, if you have one available to you. <3