making a comeback!

Well I'm hoping to get out and run today after I get home from work and catch a few zzzz's.  I did something to my good hip last week on my TWO runs.  It's not the hip, just the muscle that wraps around the hip and it's so painfull.  Wed. It hurt to walk so I've just stayed away from the running.  It's still hurts, but I can't stand not running so I think I'll try a mile or two sometime today. 

Last week was crazy terrible at our house.  For the crazy we spend Wed-Sat. going to the state 1A basketball tournament that my husband and I have 3 nephews combined playing on the same team.  They were pretty good and had a shot at it but ended up getting beat.  But the fun part about it was that the starting 5 players got to be flown back to New York today to be on Good Morning America because one of the players was in an accident when he was young and has only one arm.  It was fun to watch them and be with family for the weekend. But on Sat. we got some very heartbreaking news.  One of my husbands neices was diagnosed with a neuro blastoma (cancer)  she is a darling 16 month old, the family caboose.  The tumor right now is to large to operate and is wrapped around major vessels and near the heart.  We are all so sad.  I will be taking Jamie to Primary Childrens on Friday to see her doctor, that is where they are too.  I hope that if Jamie is having her next surgery soon that al least we will all be in the hospital together.  They have no idea when they will be going home.  They will start chemo this week and then operate when it shrinks.  Seems like we have just had one hard thing after another....

I actually did 2.3 yesterday, my body loved it and wanted more but the right hip area??  above the greater trochantor, it's muscle or tendon...soft tissue and it hurt a lot.  Today I have iced and used heat and IBU with minimal results.  I guess it's just pain and I can work through it but I want the best outcome to get it well the fastest.  Any suggestions of what it could be or what to do?  I don't think it's the IT band as it kinda wraps around the inside of the hip area??? It's got to be some kindof muscle strain?  I just want it gone YESTERDAY!!!

I still have a lot of pain in that right side of the hip area, but I decided that it is only pain and I will work through it. Followed with lots of ice and heat and stretching. The rest of me enjoyed the run a lot!

Beautiful day for a run.  I got two miles that were painful throughout!  I am so frustrated.  I survived the cold of winter and it's primo running conditions and I don't think that I can continue to do this to my body... I'm at work now and can barely walk.  The area around the hip is swollen it's terribly painful!  I hate to be taking time of right now, it seems that I run once a week and then think that I can get back out there and then I'm back to square one!  I should do something, I'm debating between P.T and chiro does anyone have any suggestions which would be better?  It involves the IT band and the surrounding muscles and I think that it's tightness and other stuff but I've iced and used heat and massaged and used the foam roller to stretch it out... where do I go frome here?

Walking.

Walking.  I've had 2 sessions of physical therapy and 2 sessions with the chiro and the hip is feeling better.  I've walked 3 miles the last 2 days with no pain, just stiffness and tightness in the area.  Sat. when I was walking I ran about 30 steps and the pain came back so I quit.  I'm trying to be patient, but I'm soooo bad at it.  But I don't want to put myself back to square one so for now I will walk.  I was doing some gentle stretching today when I got home and my hip kinda gave in the direction in the stretch and I felt pain and a popping/tearing sensation (oops!)  It's not in the area that is the worst of the pain, there seems to be more than one area that hurts, but the one that popped today was in the area of least concern so I guess it could be worse.  So for now I guess that I'll keep to my walks and hopefully in the next week or so get back to running!