Tomorrow afternoon I should find out what I’m facing in terms of recovery. I confirmed on Wednesday that the podiatrist’s office has received the results of my CT Scan and that I’m “good to go” (their words) for my appointment at 4:30PM. I’m hopeful that they’ve at least already reviewed the images, and if there was anything majorly wrong, they would have called to move my appointment up. I’m not counting on it though. Based solely off first impressions, I’m concerned I’m not going to get the treatment I’m looking for. What I want is someone to treat me like an athlete, with the understanding that not only do I want to run again but I want to do it as soon as possible. I’m not looking to rush recovery or anything, but I also don’t want to be treated like a sedentary person who has all the time in the world to recover and as long as I can get back to a point where I can walk from the couch to the fridge pain free I’m ok. My doc is clear on the fact that I’m a serious runner (I told him what I average in weekly mileage), so hopefully he will take that into consideration. Again, though, based on first impressions I’m not so sure, and if I get bad vibes I won’t hesitate to find someone else to work with.
As for how I’m doing, tonight will make one week since the incident that I’m pretty sure caused this to go from a stress reaction/fracture to a more complete break. I’m actually not doing too bad and seem to be improving a little every day. It may not be the case, but I tend to think that means there’s not too much damage or much, if any, displacement. Guess I’ll just have to wait until tomorrow afternoon and see what the doc has to say. If I get through this one, I’m going to consider myself VERY lucky. Jones Fractures are no joke and can not only be hard to heal but also cause problems for a long period of time. Of all the injuries I’ve had, and as most people know that’s a lot, this is by far the most serious and has definitely put a scare in me. I’ll get through it though, and I’m already planning my comeback. All those changes I talked about after my last injury that I failed to follow through on I will be implementing from day one this time.
As long as I recover, and that’s still an “if” at this point unfortunately, this might have been a good thing because it’s making me take a long, hard look at everything from training to diet and lifestyle. I’ve got time to run fast again, but I’m not 25 anymore and I’m going to have to face that fact and act accordingly. I may also be looking at some blood tests and things of those sort because I really feel like two stress fractures in a period of 7 months is indicative of a larger problem that I may be missing. Either I’m not getting and/or absorbing nutrients like I should be, or I’m a biomechanical nightmare, because I just haven’t been doing enough running to cause these sorts of problems. Admittedly, many of my injuries have been my own stupid fault and there are changes that I need to and will make, but I just feel like I may be missing something in addition to that.
If you’ve managed to read this far, that’s all for now. I’ll try to check back in over the weekend with a report on what I find out tomorrow afternoon. Good luck to all those running the Festival 5k/10k this weekend!
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