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May 13, 2005
Sports Massage
Knee update: feels as usual for me. Not perfect but no more acute pain.
Calf update: I was passively stretching my calf in class yesterday and when I got up my calf hurt in a different place just behind my knee. At first I freaked out and thought, why oh why was I stretching. But then I realized, if gentle stretching hurts my calf there is just something plain wrong with it and it is not my fault for being impatient with the healing process! I refuse to blame myself for this one. Which leads me to...my sports massage this afternoon. Yup, in general, I avoid them b/c I had a bad experience once with a masseuse who stretched too aggressively leaving my unable to run for 2 weeks. However, Becky suggested it during our swim this morning (well, not during, that would be pretty amazing, but at some break during the swim) and I thought, yes, there is some underlying tightness or something, so I will go.
I booked at appointment for this afternoon. Basically, my IT band is fine, my hips are in line, my muscles are balanced on both sides of my body, and she didn't really notice too much wrong with my calf. So that is good news and bad. Good b/c I appear to be healthy-but bad b/c i am obviously NOT all together and it would be fun times for me if someone could figure out why. Also, the massage was NOT relaxing at all. I spent the whole time wondering-is that movement going to make it worse? Is that one? Is that too much pain to be helpful? Anyway, she went to town on my calf and NOW it hurts. She says it will clear up in 1-2 days, i am icing and neproxening (my prescription ibuprofen). I really want to bring my ice to my friend's place tonight but they still think Becky's and my running is crazy so I don't know if I feel like dealing with all the-oh wow, are you okay?? questions. We'll see.
25 pages left. Yeah...not too much progress since yesterday, but there was some editing that doesn't get counted in the page count! Also, my writing style has deteriorated from blogging. When I blog I find it so convenient to use parenthesis (often excessively)-and it has carried over into my paper writing.
Posted by Audrey at May 13, 2005 05:57 PM
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I told you it would hurt afterwards, but hopefully it is just soreness and will feel better soon. I do the same thing during massages too, worrying if some motion or pressure will pop something out of place b/c I've screwed it up so much!
Sorry we got cut off before BTW....this happens a lot lately when I'm at home if it was me! Anyway, have fun tonight!
Posted by: becky at May 13, 2005 06:56 PM