Sprained on the Sidelines

Wednesday, February 13;

About an hour after yesterday's workout I started feeling a sharp, shooting pain in my left foot. It was consistant throughout the day. It would start in my foot at my toes and shoot up my body and end in chills in my back and face. Not at all pleasant.

I decided to go to the emergency room after work. It took my co-worker and I two and a half hours to get to the ER with the sleet and rain, and the panicked drivers. The place was packed with people and an eight hour wait to see a doctor. I decided to go home, try to sleep and come back in the morning. It took me an hour and a half to drop my friend off and then another hour to get home. Big thanks to my friend Meredith who schlepped along with me. More thanks to Keturah for keeping me sane as I drove home.

Got to the ER at 6:30 am. I was 1 of 6 people waiting to see the doctor. By 11 am I was still waiting and the ER was packed with others just like me. Thank goodness for saints like Keturah, who just decided she was just going to come to the hospital despite my insistence that she go to work. She brought me a Zone fit snack and waited until the doctors saw me. All the time my foot was throbbing, but she kept my mind off of it.

I finally saw a doctor at about 11:3o am. They gave me an x-ray and said my left foot is sprained. Needless to say I won't be doing much workout for the next few weeks. I will be in tomorrow morning of course, but no working out... I promise.

Sometimes the lord, karma, or whatever you want to call it.. has a way of kicking you in the A double S and telling you to stop being stupid and give your body a break. In that case I say, BRING ON THE BREAK!!!!!!!