ok and today i'm having a great hair day. who knew. thanks for your kind words yesterday, they meant a lot. and yes, the quote was from little women. i'm glad me and my blog friends all have love for this movie. it makes me feel close to the interwebs, which may be a good or bad thing i do not know.
yesterday i left work early because i felt awful. head ache and leg ache. my knee has been bothering me since our big hikes and it's getting worse. i started taking glucosomine, which works better when you do not drink soda, so i stopped drinking diet coke. so caffeine withdrawals and a sore and tired body apparently do not make for a happy gnomie. i went home, watched a movie, iced my leg, and wrote some more thank you notes from the wedding.
i felt worse this morning, and now i'm kind of nervous. i think it's an IT band injury, but how is it that it's just getting worse? i haven't ran or done any physical activity since Seattle, but it's not letting up. anybody had this problem before? i wake up with super stiff knees and it's getting kind of hard to go up stairs. i have a drs appt next week, hoping i can still walk by then.
2 comments:
hi miss julie,
it's meghan, #1 fan of your skinny jeans. and yes, i am a blog lurker. :)
sadly, i have had the same problem and three knee surgeries later, i can tell you i've become somewhat of an expert on knee injuries (sigh). if you are having problems going upstairs, it could either be your acl or more likely, your meniscus. either way, going to the dr's is the absolute best thing to do so you're right on track. also, take ibuprofen (i like advil), because it will help with swelling (which you may or may not see).
hope you feel better soon!
ok. i know i tried to show you pigeon pose without actually doing it and that was great. haha. anyway, here is my friend's blog post about what she does with her IT band (including pigeon pose). i haven't had knee problems so bad that it requires surgery but since you don't do a ton of stuff that would mess up your knees, i wonder what a dr. would say. (although i agree with meg, dr. appts are a good place to start.) i have had chronic knee pain since middle school, i've had MRIs and the whole nine yards and twenty bucks per visit later, there's nothing really "wrong" with my knees. the stretches have really helped and as my runner dad likes to tell me--if it hurts, stop doing it. haha. although i've had the stair problem... how do you avoid going upstairs??
anyway, good luck. i expect a full report later.
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