Ugh

I spent today out of the plant. We had to do some fancy technical engineering stuff at another company. When we have to drive more than 100 miles round trip, we have to get a rental vehicle. I rented a Dodge Dakota. They suck. Cheap as cheap can get. Junk. Don’t buy one. Ever.

We did good and got all our super cool work done. Speed back to the plant, drop off the cool things we just built, find out the internet and email is down at work, boss is out for the day, leave early to drop off the rental, and head to the gym.

I didn’t run. Ugh. Its important to listen to your body. My body is talking right now.

Body: You idiot.
Jon: Huh?
Body: You hurt me. So here.
J: OW! What was that?
B: Pain. Here, have another.
J: OW! That’s not nice. What do you want?
B: Crosstraining. I ran too fast on Sunday and now you get this.
J: OW! Ok! I get the point. Crosstraining. Got it. OW! What was that for?
B: You’re going to see the doctor.
J: Why am I-OW!
B: Because of that spot on my shin.
J: Ok, ok.

I have an appointment for 8:30 AM. That spot on my shin hurt like hell yesterday. The location is about the size of a quarter. When I squeeze the tissue around it, there is no pain, but light pressure is very painful. Don’t hurt when I do the heel jump. Slightly painful when running. Very painful when squatting. I’m not sure what’s going on, but I’m once again paranoid about a…rhymes with stress fracture.

So I missed my 5 miles tonight. I missed my 5 miles on Tuesday. Here we go again.

AND on top of all that, I haven’t had time to put together my cool Chocolate Friday post on tempering, which I have been working on but its no where near ready. Loser me.

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5 Responses to “Ugh”

  1. mark
    September 30th, 2004 23:56
    1

    argh Jon. Just ARGH!!!!

  2. tracy
    October 1st, 2004 12:32
    2

    I feel ya man. I’ve got a right quad and right ham bothering me, so I slept in this morning and will take a gentle long run tomorrow to see how it sorts out.

    Hope the Doc gives you good news!

  3. Jon in Michigan
    October 1st, 2004 14:14
    3

    Thanks, you two. Doc said he wanted to do an xray first incase they can spot a fracture and save the time and money of a bone scan. If there’s nothing there, he will order a bone scan. I had the xray today and I couldn’t see a thing, but I’m no expert. Still, there was nothing there but smooth even bone.

  4. tracy
    October 1st, 2004 17:28
    4

    Bone scans are kinda cool. You go in 4 hours beforehand, drink some nuclear material, go home and drink liquids for a couple hours, and then come back. You lay still on a table for about 30 minutes while a robotic arm zooms around you, and then they show you a neat picture of your skeleton. Pretty damn cool. I had a bone scan, a couple MRI’s and some electric nerve analysis for my hip years ago (nothing showed up).

    I guess enjoy it if you have to have one!

  5. Katie
    October 1st, 2004 23:08
    5

    That is no good at all :( hope the problem goes away soon.

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