Tuesday, come home from work, with full intention of doing my workout, and crash on the sofa as soon as my butt hit the cushion. Wake up about 10pm, haven't done the workout, need to cook for the next day, and need to get my meals in...OK, ill shift my Thursday workout to Wednesday and deal with it like that.
Wake up Wednesday, knee is in a heap of pain. Did nothing - not even the previous days workout, but managed to get up, and get to work. Knee keeps bugging me all day, then I get up to leave and I can hardly walk. Manage to get to my car, get into my car, and drive home. Munch down some painkillers and ice down the knee...and somehow prep the food for tomorrow and feed myself.
Wake up the next day - can not move, can not bend my knee, cant put any weight on it...hmmm. Manage to make my way to the doctors, can barely get out of the car - get put into a wheelchair, after a couple of hours... xrays, proding and poking (I was ready to prod and poke him with my fist...when I say it hurts....IT HURTS! stop trying to make it hurt more!) nothing but a prescription for anti-inflammatory pills and a set of crutches. Lucky I had a stash of some really strong codine based painkillers...I had them for about 6 months without needing one....I needed them now. Managed to squeeze in a pose for the blog thinking it could be the way of the future for the next few weeks at least!
Make it home, ice up, pass out on the sofa again, wake up eat, ice up, pass out...wake up...wow, feeling a lot better. Maybe its the drugs. Managed to do some upper body workouts, legs feeling usable to the point I can stand on it. Off to bed.
Wake up the next day, so careful and fearful of the pain I was about to experience....nothing! No pain, ever slight tenderness...but that's it....so I think from today, looks like there is very little knee / leg workouts, so time to get back into the rhythm. Really was pissed off that this might be the end to the program for me, but now it looks like its not, I am back with a lot more will to keep going through this of course treading easy for the next few days at least. No need for the crutches either!
Besides all that - one thing I do remember amongst the haze of pain killers and pain. Filling out the hospital forms, you know the usual questionnaires.
Drink alcohol in the last 24 hours - no
participate in regular exercise - yes
regular balanced diet - yes
weight - 85kg
If anything...I think that's the first time I have ever answered without even a slight "white lie", I have been over 90kg for at least 5 years, felt strangely satisfying and really reflected what I have done to myself over the last 50 days. Now my knee feels fine, it was a good experience at the end of the 2 days of pain, and it has refreshed my will power to push through the next 40 days!
I was worried through 3/4 of reading this!! Glad to hear you're doing okay now! Sometimes the body just breaks, and it sucks. However, you recover much faster if you're in shape to do so!
ReplyDeletelets test that theory...got smacked back down with a cold on the weekend and hopefully tomorrow ill be on the up... Hope that's it and I am free to go now for the next 40 days without anything to holding me back.
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