Update on my Injury

I have been resting this week as much as is possible with 4 children and a busy schedule...my family has been sweet and understanding and have allowed for me to rest quite a bit. I have even missed church 2 times this week, which has been hard for me, but really resting requires me to miss some things and I need to be okay with that.

The pain gets better when resting. It feels so much better that I feel like trying to exercise some. I did go out for a short walk 2 times this week, just to see how my body would respond..I walked for a few minutes and then tried to run very slowly. The pain came back immediately. Afterwards, I was limping again. Then after resting a while, the pain gets better. That is how the cycle is going right now. So, I have decided that I better just stop anything that requires impact at all. I can walk from A to B just fine...so I am able to do things at home...but after too much time on my feet, the achiness come back. Not full fledged pain, but still bothersome dull pain. Not fun.

I have done a lot of research to find out what it could be and I think that I might have a stress fracture...possibly pel*vic or something in that area. I really hope it isn't because depending on the severity of it, I can be down from running for MONTHS! This is a pretty common injury with women runners, especially after running a marathon or increasing their mileage, etc. Most of the time, the pain or achiness just resembles something that could be muscle or tendon pain, but it doesn't go away in a few days like a typical muscle injury does...plus the pain feels deeper and gets worse with weight bearing activities. I have been feeling the achiness for a while and just thought it was typical "after running" soreness and all...but then when I ran that fast 5k a couple of weeks ago, I started having much more pain and the following 2 runs after that caused me to limp...and that is how a stress fracture acts...it occurs over time as more tension pull is put on the bone until it is an all out fracture.

I am also having some nausea, which I think is related to the injury. I just have an overall feeling of not being well.

So, I am going to the doctor...as much as I do not want to...I need to know what this is and what I need to do to get better. I have an appointment at an Ortho Clinic on Tuesday that specializes in sports injuries. I am expecting a bone scan or MRI of the area. It is in an awkward place so I am really nervous about the appointment..."Hello, nice to meet you, I have pain right down here". I am such a modest person, even with doctors, that I would really like to avoid this whole ordeal.

Thank you so much for your prayers and your sweet comments. I wrote all this to ask you again to pray for me as I go to this appointment and pray that it is not a stress fracture! I am having some trouble thinking about not being able to be active for such a long period of time. But, like I said before, if God needs to remove this from me for now, then I will praise Him and thank Him for knowing what is best for me.