I’m sitting here on my couch, hamstrings wrapped tightly with ice packs, watching TV. This is what I’ve done all weekend when I wasn’t at a meeting or my friend Abbey’s baby shower.
No running. No biking. No Yoga. No nothing. Even standing at work for more than 10-15 minutes at a time hurts. I surrender. I’m waiving the white flag. I’m going to do whatever I need to do to make this injury get better. So far, that has been a lot of this:
I’m getting depressed. I feel helpless, incapable, and broken. I’m not looking for a bunch of sympathy, I am just venting because I am really frustrated. It’s so easy to take health for granted. To take something as simple as running, or being able to run, for granted. It’s kinda crazy how you realize all of the functions your hamstrings serve when they are broken! Even driving hurts. Pointing the toe for an extended period of time (on the worse of the two legs of course) eventually causes pain.
My only hope now to stay in shape is swimming. Once I start feeling a little bit less pain, I want to try it out. I haven’t been able to get myself motivated to do it yet. I will soon, though, and when I do I’ll let you know how it went 
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On a happier note, Ms. Tater had her teeth cleaned and a couple of suspicious bumps removed from her neck on Friday. She is doing great! Her puppy breath has gone from stinky back to puppy breath, and I couldn’t be happier! Dr. Iverson will be letting me know what the bumps turned out to be and if she got everything when she removed them (if they turned out to be something bad, that is.) I’ll keep ya’ll posted on that, as well. Look how stinkin’ cute my baby is!!
This is her thinking if she hides under the chair, maybe she’ll be safe!
This is her right after surgery. She was just a little stoned, that’s all!
I don’t have a whole lot else to write about, since I spent most of my weekend in bed or on the couch. Devin and I watched Safe Haven, and it was good! Poor guy had to suffer through a chic flick, and no complaints! What a good guy .
Now I am going to watch the season finale of Revenge. Word on the street (a.k.a. Facebook) is that it leaves quite the good cliffhanger. I hope everyone has a great week!
‘Til next time….
Happy Trails!
Stacey
Words of wisdom I got today “it just takes time” .. I know, I have been sooo frustrated with my knee, not being able to do my scooping, pet sitting, even going to the shop … all I did, could do was lay around, couldn’t drive the clutch since it was my LEFT knee … *sigh* Johnnie said trying to keep me “down and unactive” is just like trying to keep Jaxson still when he sees a tennis ball!!
Hang in there boog, vent some more, and swimming is great on the joints and muscles!
Love you!!
Melissa
It just worries me because even doing something normal like working is bothering it. I am scared that I’m going to have to take extended time off work….I just don’t know yet…
I’m so sorry to hear your hamstrings are still bothering you! I think taking up swimming would be great, and if you go to a gym/pool that has it, when you feel ready, you should try water jogging. Same intensity as jogging but without all the pressure! I did it while recovering from micro-tears in my calves and it helped a lot! Email me if you want to talk more about it! And maybe you can try doing some upper body stuff to (as I know how sanity can get crazy when you can’t run) keep you sane? I did that when I sprained my ankle and my hip was still jacked up!
Fingers crossed you feel better! And if this doesn’t sound too crazy, try using some Arnicare by Arnica gel on your hamstrings…healed up my hip AND my ankle faster than I ever thought possible! Again, email me and we can chat about it if you want! Hugs!
Thanks so much for the advice! i have thought about the aqua jogging as soon as I start to feel better. I have the Arnicare! I just put some on….I probably will drop you an email sometime this week. Congrats on your PR, too, BTW!