I have been sidelined for about 10 days with what I am hoping is just tendonitis. I have an appointment on Monday with the sports med doc. I have had tendonitis before, but it has never lasted this long.

Anyway, this really hit out of the blue and has caused me to feel pretty depressed. I have never been depressed in my life. Sad, grieved, blue, but never depressed.

I read online that it is not uncommon for athletes to feel depressed when they are injured, due to an actual change in brain chemistry from not training. So I guess it is not unheard of.

The weird thing is that right before it hit, I was about a month back in to base training and feeling so great. Motivated and happy and so pleased with the way things were going. And then blam.

I keep giving myself reality checks:
You don't have cancer
Your son is not going to Iraq
You did not get in an accident
Stop it, stop it, stop it...

Has not helped.....

grrrhhhhh.....