Das Boot is Das Worthless Piece of Crap
So 3 weeks with the boot, and at my appointment the PA tells me that since there was virtually no improvement he is pretty sure it is a pinched nerve that has become inflamed and surrounded by scar tissue after being repetitively smashed in between the bones of my foot. Something that is quite common for marathon runners to experience. Oh yeah, and also common for people who did nothing but sit on their ass for several years patiently watching grow and grow, then finally decided to do something about it once they were properly horrified by their own girth and started working out fairly intensely.
Hmmmm.
I guess I deserved that. Actually, the PA had a much nicer way of saying it, but lets not split hairs... that's what happened. I guess it's true that being overweight and unhealthy as well as rapid weight loss is hard on ones body. In the end though, while it sure does suck, Id much rather deal with the pinched nerve than be back at 220 pounds again.
I got a shot of cortisone at the office, and if that seems to solve the pain problem (which I am cautiously optimistic about at this point), Sara is going under the knife. Outpatient surgery is the prescribed solution... either that, or regular cortisone shots---and after the weird reaction I had to the shot I got yesterday, no thanks---to basically "kill" the nerve. I go back again in 3 weeks.
This morning I popped in my Crunch Power yoga/pilates DVD... in part to warm back into working out, in part to test my foot on something fairly low impact. Aside from some tenderness on the top of my foot, and the fact that I am fairly certain that my left foot took a nap when that boot was placed on it, and hasn't quite woke back up yet, I felt pretty good. Tomorrow I have big plans for the Y. I don't trust the treadmill yet, but there is an Arc Trainer with my name on it.... and the weight room. Oh, how my arms are thanking me ahead of time for strength training, and putting an end to their consistent slide into blobiness!
I tell you what, after spending the last 2 weeks doing diddly and squat in the way of exercise, and a much longer period of sporadic efforts in the area of raising the heart rate, it felt so nice to move again. I haven't lost it all, but damn I could tell a difference---I felt the burn far more than I did the first time I tried that DVD, and all morning my body was So! Excited! and Couldn't! Sit! Still! I was shaking, unable to focus, on an exercise high. FROM PILATES PEOPLE. I may have to get a ride home from the Y tomorrow if I react in proportion after so serious cardio work.
So the boot was a pointless, ridiculous waste of time... and I am a little TO'd that instead of following what he thought originally (that it wasn't a stress fracture, but a pinched nerve), and getting this shot waaaay back on valentines day, the PA played it safe and followed the (crappy worthless, didn't even LOOK at my x-rays OR bone scan pcp) Dr's advice and slapped me in a boot, I am too optimistic that this is actually the problem and that it's a fairly quick fix, rather than a "wait and see, stay off it till it decides to heal" type thing, that comes with the stress fracture territory.
Yes, I do have a follow-up to my last post... look for it tomorrow perhaps? Thank you all for your (mostly) supportive comments though, it was a bit of a rant, and I do feel I owe a bit of clarification.