Tomorrow I go to the doctor to get the OK with my knee. My legs were really roughed up in Utah skiing, but they have made a complete recovery. I even managed to get in 20 minutes at the pool today. The water there is too chlorinated - too much so to do swimming for more than 30 or 40 minutes at a time. Now that I shave my face, my sensitive skin is now reactive extra-stupid sensitive and flakes white stuff off a few hours after drying.
As for the knee, I’m not much sure what to make of it. All the joints in my lower half have hurt, with the exception of my feet. The new fancy-pants runnings shoes my mom got me helped, I’m sure, but obviously not sufficient to totally prevent complication. One thing they did prevent, for which I’m eternally grateful, was shin splints. I haven’t had to deal with them once. I’m quite certain my knee, of which only the right seems to provide any sustained discomfort, was injured from a combination of over use and abuse, as I tried to stomp something in the lab while pissed off and over extended my knee into our concrete floor whilst wearing my boots. I suppose had I sat down and followed my normal habit - do nothing, I don’t imagine I would have hurt it - but I did a 4 mile run the next day did an extended 30 minute swim the day after that and ran 3 miles the day after that.
BUT - that being said, I haven’t had to wear my wrap for the last 2 days and there has been no obvious swelling. Periodically, after much walking around campus, the thing becomes sensitive. I suppose the doctor will have something to say on it tomorrow, presumably instructions not to run on it for a little while longer, as well as PT instructions which he already promised he would give me, since I appear to have joints which are prone to being over extended and thus need muscle tissue…. (and if anyone could tell me how building tone muscle tissue compensates for joint overextension I would be very curious to hear. Body builders don’t seem to lose any range of motion as they bulk up - why would my knee?)
Tags: Feeling like crap, injury
