I wanted to get this post out yesterday, but ran out of time. First of all, I want to thank everyone for your prayers and support. It seems like when you put things in God's hands, it works much better than going at it alone.
Yesterday (Thursday) morning, I collected my x-rays and climbed into the van to head to my appointment with the orthopedist. I was down about what I was expecting to hear - a long recovery and/or surgery. But, I really had spent since Saturday preparing myself for it. I had held out hope for running the pig, but was already making plans for a fall marathon, looking seriously at the Detroit marathon in October.
When the doctor walked into the room and asked what happened, I explained how I was training for the Flying Pig and was on my last "long" run when... (you've already read it). He told me his wife was a marathon runner and that he thought we were crazy to want to run that far and asked me if I was planning on running the Flying Pig. I said, "I was planning on it until this happened, now I don't think I'll be able to." His response floored me!!! He said, "Well, my goal is to get you to be able to run it." He looked over my knee, felt all around i, moving it, jerking it, all that jazz. He said that my tendons felt good and that I may have "tweaked" on of them since I had some pain twisting the knee to the inside. He also thought that I could have pulled a "rudimentary" muscle in my calf that runners typically damage, which can feel like an ACL tear when it happens, and that I may have had a "baker's cyst" in the back of my knee, from a meniscus tear at some point, that may have ruptured (thus the "pop" and swelling).
He then gave me several options:
- Ignore it for now since I was healing well
- Have physical therapy
- Get an MRI and see what is going on, but if it is a pulled muscle there would be nothing else to do.
I asked him, what he would do and he said ignore it for now. He said I am getting better and to start back running on Monday (1/2 mile at the most) and see how it feels. Then ramp back up to my distances since I am in the taper phase of my training. He did not see a reason why I could not run the pig. He prescribed an anti-inflammatory and said if it was not getting better or worsened next week while running to call and we would to the MRI and get together to discuss options. He said they could be from limping through the marathon on a pulled muscle to surgery if it was more serious.
Well, I will keep everyone posted. I plan on doing just what the doctor ordered, running a 1/2 mile on Monday and go from there. The knee has felt good over the past couple of days. I will post again on Monday after my trial run and let everyone know how it is doing. Only 14 days and 7 scheduled training runs left to the pig.
The final thing that I want to say is "Job was a patient man" - for those of you who follow this blog and went the Catholic Central (Mr. Faulkrod's class). I have recently felt like Job, adversity at every tune in the past few weeks, but I will keep handing it over to God.
Thanks for your prayers.
In Him,
Philippians 4:13
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