CM10: DNS

Yes, peeps! It's true.

I will not be starting at the marathon this weekend. My running season this year is pretty much DONE, finished.....bu-bye!

My knee has been giving me a lot of crap since my pre-20 mile long run weekend. It has not stopped. I have been through 3 full weeks of PT and starting my 4th week tomorrow. The pain, clicking, locking, and stiffness is just getting to me.

I have had a MRI last week. It didn't show anything clear for a meniscus tear so I had a cortisone injection this afternoon. The injection brought 8 glorious pain-free hours before the pain came back like a b****! But it was localized in the joint where most of my pain has been coming from.

I should know what the next step is by Wednesday when I call back with a status update to my doctor. I want to run to running...period. This weekend will be tough, but I know that I have couple of great friends coming into town and I plan to put 110% into making sure that this is THEIR weekend. I don't want to feel sad about this. It's time to move on and take control as much as I can.

I plan to avenge this marathon and make 2011 the best running season ever. I promise!

NO MARATHON for me

As you can tell by my title of my blog entry, I received very bad news from my doctor regarding my MRI I had on Wednesday morning. It is so bad that I do not any hope of running the Chicago Marathon in less than a month. I will have to wait to another marathon.

As for the injury, here's the initial findings from the radiologist:

"Bone marrow edema is idenitified with the medial aspect of the talus consistent with a bone bruise. There is mild edema of the calcaneus at the area of the sustentaculum tali. There is very small amount of fluid at the navicular insertion of the tibialis posterior tendon. This could be indicative of an an avulsion injury. No ligamentous interruption is appreciated. There is small amount of fluid within the ankle joint space.

Impression:

Bone Bruises of the navicular bone and calcaneus. Possible avulsion injury to the navicular attachment of the posterior tibialus tendon."

I must have had a worst fall than I thought. Right now, I fighting through the numbness and feeling devistated slowly. I am sure as soon as reality hits that I will continue to grieve. I am trying to take it all in right now, but it's pretty hard.

I am back to couch duty and need to stay off my feet as much as I can. It will not so hard because I will have good football to watch the next two days. Plus this is the first weekend where Josh and I are not running around getting our house ready. No running for me...period for awhile.

It's a NO GO...

...on Sunday. I am not being allowed to run North Shore..period! I had my visit with podiatrist this afternoon to examine my bad left foot for Plantar Facisitis. When Josh said that we would be running on Sunday. He ended up saying, "one of you will running on Sunday." That's when it hit that I would not be running on Sunday.

I am SO upset about this because I have been working so hard towards this race. This is NOT easy for me to deal with. I hope to work towards accepting this end result. Now I have to work towards being a spectator instead of a runner.

I just need the weather to cooperate so I can ride my bike outside. It's my goal for tommorow.

Please send LOTS of healing hugs and vibes this way. I need them BADLY!!

Day 5: Same old story

I woke up again after only 4 1/2 hours of sleep feeling like crap with another fever. I called my doctor and left a message explaining what's going on. Josh and I are taking turns sleeping in shifts. I will be awake when he's asleep. He'll be awake when I am asleep. I did manage to get into my doctor again today. The good news is that my pulse when down from 111 on Thursday to 106 today (well sort of!) The doctor gave me antibiotics for possible walking-pneumonia. I am hacking up a lung for the last 5 days and can not seem to sleep without waking up coughing.

Well, with that said, both Josh and I will be DNS for tommorow's 5K. We do plan to pick up our packets tonight so we can have our t-shirts at least. I feel horrible because I really, really wanted to do this race. But we are NO condition to this race at all.

29 days until the Shamrock Shuffle!