Sick of hurting
Today I had the most excruciatingly painful physio session either. I thought I had been over the worst when I was recovering from my knee reconstruction, at one point I had wanted to crawl away from him. All of it was nothing until today, when I actually cried. Yup, there were a few tears, and I told him he was a sadistic bastard.
Monday I had noticed my knee was a little swollen, and a little bit sore. To be safe, I didn’t go for a run and didn’t ride my bike to work. Yet when I arrived at the physio’s this morning he immediately noticed the swelling (I actually thought it had gone down). He tapped my knee cap and showed me the difference between my bad knee and my good knee. It turned out the knee cap in my bad knee was actually floating around in fluid – wow! Then he set to work on my muscles, and I cried. It felt like someone had grabbed my muscle, twisted it as tight as possible, and then tried to pull it out of my body. To say the experience was horrific would be an understatement. I will be sure to post photos of the bruises that come up. I bruise normally after sessions with him, but I wouldn’t be surprised if these ones come out completely black.
So for the next week I’m not allowed to do any running, or any riding. I have to keep it up when I can, and take it easy. Oh, and do hamstring stretches. Lots and lots of hamstring stretches.
While normally I would be fine with that, and accept it as part of my rehab, the reality is that it’s bloody annoying. I’m only 1.5 weeks away from participating in a 14km walk/run in Sydney, the City 2 Surf. I wanted to run this year, and in fact had signed up for one of the running sections. Now all of that is in jeopardy, and I’m frustrated. I’ll be meeting with the physio again next Thursday, the day before we fly to Sydney. He will tell me if he thinks running will be a good idea or not, and I will ignore him if he says I can’t. Kidding, I won’t ignore him (he IS the expert after all) but if he says I can’t run then I know I will be incredibly disappointed.
I’m going to listen to the expert, keep my leg up, and pray. Keep your fingers crossed for me!
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