One week down....

[Helene2013]

Oh boy can I hear you on this. Been on/off crutches for the past month. It is so hard to walk in those. I hate it but I know sometimes I have no other options.

Yesterday was the first day I could walk normally - if you can call it this. My ruptured baker's cyst is resorbing and my lower half-leg is starting to look normal. But not out of the woods yet and no walking and jumping all over the place.

Hubby was training on bike trainer a few nights last week and it was so heartbreaking not being to even do a small gym, but light physiotherapy.

Today I will try to ride on trainer for 10-15 minutes with no strength on bike, no standing, no max speed. Just a small warm up to see how the knee is handling things for now and get the fluids from bottom leg right up to the knee lymp nodes as it is easier to be absorb back by body.

It was the worst pain I ever had. The knee ligament restruct of the other knee 10 years ago was nothing compared to this pain. I don't ever want to feel this ever again.

So hang it there. There are better days coming up even if it seems hellish right now.

[rocknrollgirl]

I never thought I would actually look forard to the trainer! We had awful weather this w/e so nobody was out riding. It made it easier to stay put.

Today was a sloggy day. Tough to get out of the house this morning, tough to muster any enthusiasm. But heck, it was Monday, I am sure half the world felt that way!

[bluejellybean]

I've had plantar fasciitis a couple times in the past and not too long ago noticed a lump on the bottom of my foot. There's no pain or anything, (yet!) but I'll be keeping an eye on it. I'm hoping it doesn't develop into anything!

[rocknrollgirl]

I was able to push it off for two years by using orthotics. They really helped.

[Crankin]

You are not missing much in this rainy weather, rocknroll.

[rocknrollgirl]

truthfully, I am so exhausted between not sleeping and crutching that I am not yet antsy. It will come and I guess when it starts I will know I am on the mend.

back to the doc tomorrow, my hope is that the stitches will come out and that the crutches will get an expiration date.

[ny biker]

I was going to suggest this would be a good time for any sedentary projects you might have been putting off. Like going through boxes of old photos and putting them into albums, or organizing those old financial documents that we are supposed to save for X number of years and purging/shredding the old ones. But it's better if you're not exhausted (or zonked out on pain killers) when you do that sort of thing, which often makes it hard to do them when you've got forced down-time due to injury.

Do be careful not to overdo things when you get off the crutches. Easier said than done, I know. But we don't want you to injure something else!

Good luck with the doctor tomorrow.