Monday, May 15, 2006

Bum leg blues

I hurt my knee again. It's bad this time. I'm giving up all of my classes. Two of them just for the next couple of months. But the rest of them permanently. It's a lot harder than I thought it would be. It's like watching all of my hard work in building up these classes this past year just slipping away. You never realize how much you love something until you have to give it up.

What am I going to do with myself? I can't rock climb. No mountain biking. I mean we're down to the basics here. Walk carefully, don't do something stupid like climb a flight of stairs. I hurt my knee again a few nights ago in my sleep, just moving wrong. And I hurt it the other day just trying to put my knee brace on. That's about the time I broke down into tears. I'm so frustrated and angry. Self pity sucks, but I can't help it.

For a while my knee really seemed to be improving. I felt 100%. But all the nutrition in the world isn't going to help when I push too hard and tear tendons right? I need to learn to take it easy. I guess my body is screaming that loud and clear now. I had an x-ray. Waiting on the results of that. Hopefully this week I'll get in to see some type of knee specialist. I just can't wait any longer.


I did get these springy shoes though. They're z-coils. They feel awesome. Like walking on a cloud. Granted, they're a little strange looking. But people just sort of expect things like that out of me so I bet they don't even look twice. "There she goes again, more voodoo".