Friday, February 13, 2009

Tendinitis

I've never had any trouble with my knees. . . until now. I started having some pain in my right knee in December, especially when doing aerobics. About a month later, I decided I should have a doctor take a look at it. The diagnosis was tendinitis. He said to rest it for ten days, ice it every day and take Aleve.

That was ten days ago and it has been feeling fine the past few days. So, I decided to try to run a slow mile tonight. I could feel the knee pain coming back. I think I am going to have to rest it quite a bit longer - frustrating!

It figures that I had just put the Nike Plus widget on the side of my blog. Now, while I further rest my knee, the widget will continually mock me.

"You've turned into a couch potato."
"You're stuck in a rut."

Soon, I'll probably start hearing:
  • "Got Wii?"
  • "I blog AND run, do you?"
  • "It's a good thing you bought that new running GPS!"

5 comments:

Rocki Stillson said...

It's all the ddr that ruined your knees.

Anonymous said...

Steve...have you ever seen the Rocki movies where the trainer is yelling at Rocki "no pain! no pain!!" maybe you will have to let the little voice in your head say that. And can I just ask...why are you doing aerobics? Do you actually have ANY fat on your body? :)

Connie K said...

ok that was not supposed to anymous, its from me

Connie K said...

oh great, now I spelled anonymous wrong..see if I make a comment again! How embarressing (ok, that word is probably spelled wrong) my only hope is no one reads your blog.

Steve Gall said...

I would never have noticed the misspelling. And I appreciate your comments. The bad thing about my knee problem is that the doctor says that if I try to exercise through the pain, it will just keep getting worse. He said, I have to let it heal. I'm bummed. All these years of minimal exercise and now that I want to, I can't do much.