28AUG12

I meant to write this at the end of last week after I did my 1st walk with the WE PLAY WOMEN Meetup.com group on Wednesday evening. Which by the way I did really good, I set a personal best for walking a 5 K . . . 56 minutes (around a 20 minute mile)!! Damn, I was proud of myself. I had earned that red face.

As I went to start the laptop up Friday evening my knee gave out & I fell to floor. Mind you not just a straight fall . . .  NO, I had 2 do it in the most hurtful manner I have yet to figure out. All I remember is that my left knee just suddenly gave out & as I fell that same knee slammed into the corner of the desk, my tailbone landed on the edge of the hard, plastic office chair, which in turn dumped my tukiss unceramonisly onto the floor.

I remember laying there trying to figure out why everything hurt so bad. As I lay there taking stock of all the aches, my 4 y/o came running out of her room to see what had happened. When she saw me laying to the floor she asked, "Mommy did you fall down?" To which I replied,"Yes." She then asked if I hurt myself & when I said my knee and my butt she ran out to the kitchen, yelling for me to stay put she was getting me ice for my Boo-Boo's.

She came back with 2 little freezer packs that we use to keep the baby bottles cold with & a little tea-towel to wrap one in. Since I was still laying on my side because I hurt so bad, she proceeded to try & put one of the ice packs on my butt, but it wouldn't stay. After several more attempts she started to pull the waist band of my sweats down. I asked her whats she thought she was going to do and her reply was stuff it in my underwear so it would stay in place. Needless to say I quickly assured her that my back hurt MUCH worse than my butt & we should put it there. 

So my little nurse wrapped the ice pack & put it on my back. She then placed the second pack on my knee which by this time was throbbing. As I'm sitting there I have her bring my cell phone so I can call my BF, who had just gotten off work. When I told him what happened, he started laughing at me, until he realized that I was serious. He then asked if I was OK and when I told him I was in so much pain I couldn't get myself off the floor, he told me to stay put' he would be right home to help me.

So now about 10 minutes have passed since this all started & my butt & back are really starting to bother me so I try to change positions only to notice that I can't feel my left foot, I figure it has fallen asleep. I glance down at my foot & see that the foot is swollen to almost TWICE the size of my right foot. Now I start to think maybe a trip to the ER is called for. When my BF gets home he helps me up and on the arm of the couch. We decide that the damage does warrant a trip to the hospital & so I go.

They take x-rays, & tell me nothing is broke, but I sprained my ankle & that my knee, tailbone and lower back are all badly bruised. They give me Vicadon for pain and tell me to follow up w/ my PCP & an Orthopedic Specialist. I saw my PCP today and he said that my knee is sprained as well & agreed with the recommendation of an Orthopedic. So I am to continue to wear the gel splint (that the hospital gave me) on my ankle & he wants me to take it as easy as I can until I see the Orthopedic next Tuesday.

This now puts my training on a slight hold while they figure out what to do. Luckily I have the PUSH UP CHALLENGE starting on the 1st of September & since I'm not quite up to standard push-ups  will be doing modified's on the wall at 1st which don't necessarily mean I need both feet. For nor I work on upper body strength & nutrition.