Sorry, I haven't posted much lately. Life has been crazy, to say the least. I was traveling last week to NY and now I'm trying to get caught up from being gone, training all week here in Green Bay and getting ready to go to NY again next week. Plus two of my friends are out of town so Asher and I are house sitting. I got a new position that happens to be based out of Buffalo, NY and have been training on this new position with my new co-workers. I got to tour Buffalo a little last week, go to a fancy dancy sales meeting/dinner and got to get to know my new co-workers better. I took just a couple pictures and will post them in the next few days.....hopefully.
Yesterday I went to the doctor for my heel. It was a good thing, I made the appointment a month ago but with my crazy schedule and the doctor being super booked this was the first I could get in, and my heel is killing me!! I changed my shoes last week to only run in my Saucony ProGrid Guide 2's and not at all in my Brooks Adrenaline. I also stopped wearing my orthotics to try and pin point where this heel problem is coming from and why it's not getting better. My foot was pretty good last week and I ran three days in a row while in NY. I haven't run three days in a row with minimal pain in a long time. It's usually extremely painful while walking into work after running that morning but the pain subsides during the day and was pretty good by the end of the day. So it does seem to be improving but not a ton. So yesterday I finally got to go see Dr. Ebben. This guy is awesome. He is a sports medicine doctor for Bellin. I saw him back in Nov 08 when my feet were bothering me and I needed orthotics. We talked for a long time, about my running, my feet, my shoes and my orthotics. My orthotics are terrible, it took us a year to get them to a point where I could actually run on them and I'm not convinced they aren't the cause of my heel problem. He was not happy that it took so long to get my orthotics right and also thinks they could be the source of my heel pain. The guy that made my orthotics is frustrated and has told me my feet just aren't made to run, so I should give up the idea of ever running pain free. Well Dr. Ebben totally disagreed with that. I was pain free before, I can be pain free again. I was very happy to hear that. So we got an X-Ray of my heel, just to make sure there wasn't a stress fracture or a bone spur (which there wasn't) and came up with a plan to get this better. I am going to go to a new PT and get reset for orthotics. We are going to start from scratch. (I was so excited to hear this, I don't like my current ones, and they aren't comfortable at all.) He also gave me an anti-inflammatory for my heel and said I just have a deep tissue bruise and this should help heal it. We also talked about next steps if the new orthotics don't help my feet, which included a trip to see a foot specialist in Milwaukee. He doesn't think it will come to that but he wanted to prove to me that we will get this better and that I don't have to give up something I love. I was very relieved to hear that. It was a good trip.
And this morning I ran my speed day virtually pain free. It was the best feeling in the world. Something I've been waiting for since 2008 when my feet started bothering me. Now for a long term solution where I don't need drugs to help me run pain free and life will be great.
P.S. I will also try and post my last two weekly recaps today. I know they are really late.
No comments:
Post a Comment