I have progressed so far my rehab of my knee that the doctors think that I might be able to start running short runs by the end of the month....maybe even by mid-month! AND......they think I will be able to participate in the TNT ski team again!
No one has any idea how happy I am to hear that! I was so fearful that I wouldn't be able to participate this coming season!
Please keep your fingers crossed that my recovery continues to be as fast as it has been so far!
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Friday, October 5, 2007
The Aftermath
I got my first opinion....and like many doctors he said, "Hmm....you will be fine." This didn't make me feel better...though secretly I was hoping to hear that. It didn't make me feel better b/c I could barely walk without pain so how was I going to run a marathon and in all honest this was NOT fine!
The first opinion put me on crutches and ordered the MRI...which by the way was hard to read b/c of all the swelling in my knee. I ordered a second copy to take to my second opinion doctor that I had been referred too by one of my friends from ski team. I had to wait 2 weeks to get into her, but I just knew that it was going to be worth it.
The weeks creeped by....I wasn't able to be active so my once VERY active self was having to sit on the coach a lot...which is hard to do once you get used to being so busy. I counted down to the second opinion doctor appt. This doctor has competed in many triathlons in her time, so I knew that if there was any hope of me running in my race she was the person to give me that hope. My appt was set for the first week of Sept.
I got there very hopeful.....she spent well over an hour with me, evaluating my knee, my MRI and report. She caught things that impressed me. What it all came down too was that I had started to get an IT Band injury and me laying off the running a few days a week didn't help that much...not to mention I had genetic issues with the way that my knees and muscles were created (thanks Mom and Dad for that!). Basically I was told that I shouldn't run in the race...that my ligaments in my knee were coiled up and if I ran I could make it worse.
I didn't think I would get that emotional about things....but I did...and embarrassingly enough I cried off and on for a few days. After I cried I think I went into denial....that I think I finally came out of just last week. I have gone through 3 weeks of physical therapy, a surgical consult, and many doctor appts.....and at this point they don't think I need surgery, but I am wearing some pretty interesting looking tape on my knee. Apparently it is a homeopathic way of healing me my knee....it sort of tricks my brain to think there are ligaments where the tape is placed.
Life has been interested in the last month and a half...not to mention frustrating, painful, exciting (running across the street to avoid getting hit by a bus with NO pain..that was HUGE for me), etc. I know now that maybe this happened for a reason. The doctors and physical therapists have narrowed down what exactly is wrong and in all honesty it wouldn't have showed up without me having been ambitious enough to run this race. Unfortunately I can't run in the race, but we are now putting me back together the way I should have been.
Race day is coming up around the corner....and instead of struggling through the race I will be cheering my teammates on. I know that I will be sad on race day and in all honesty I am not sure how I am going to make it through that day without shedding a few tears. But I plan to be there to cheer on my teammates!
The first opinion put me on crutches and ordered the MRI...which by the way was hard to read b/c of all the swelling in my knee. I ordered a second copy to take to my second opinion doctor that I had been referred too by one of my friends from ski team. I had to wait 2 weeks to get into her, but I just knew that it was going to be worth it.
The weeks creeped by....I wasn't able to be active so my once VERY active self was having to sit on the coach a lot...which is hard to do once you get used to being so busy. I counted down to the second opinion doctor appt. This doctor has competed in many triathlons in her time, so I knew that if there was any hope of me running in my race she was the person to give me that hope. My appt was set for the first week of Sept.
I got there very hopeful.....she spent well over an hour with me, evaluating my knee, my MRI and report. She caught things that impressed me. What it all came down too was that I had started to get an IT Band injury and me laying off the running a few days a week didn't help that much...not to mention I had genetic issues with the way that my knees and muscles were created (thanks Mom and Dad for that!). Basically I was told that I shouldn't run in the race...that my ligaments in my knee were coiled up and if I ran I could make it worse.
I didn't think I would get that emotional about things....but I did...and embarrassingly enough I cried off and on for a few days. After I cried I think I went into denial....that I think I finally came out of just last week. I have gone through 3 weeks of physical therapy, a surgical consult, and many doctor appts.....and at this point they don't think I need surgery, but I am wearing some pretty interesting looking tape on my knee. Apparently it is a homeopathic way of healing me my knee....it sort of tricks my brain to think there are ligaments where the tape is placed.
Life has been interested in the last month and a half...not to mention frustrating, painful, exciting (running across the street to avoid getting hit by a bus with NO pain..that was HUGE for me), etc. I know now that maybe this happened for a reason. The doctors and physical therapists have narrowed down what exactly is wrong and in all honesty it wouldn't have showed up without me having been ambitious enough to run this race. Unfortunately I can't run in the race, but we are now putting me back together the way I should have been.
Race day is coming up around the corner....and instead of struggling through the race I will be cheering my teammates on. I know that I will be sad on race day and in all honesty I am not sure how I am going to make it through that day without shedding a few tears. But I plan to be there to cheer on my teammates!
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