Pain at a 1-2 at waking up and after morning exercise, spikes to a 4-5 right after I do my pelvic stretches, but then calms down, hovered around 3, a 5 after MRI and ended up around a 6-7.
swam 40 minutes, same as yesterday plus 100 m freestyle, 50 at a time and almost drowning on the last lap of freestyle. Met my moron quota for the day then 20 min ellyptical at level 1. Had a very fit woman on a treadmill in front of me and I had to endure watching her perfect body doing an interval workout. It was torture. No sweat, just jealousy oozing out of me. HR was 110-120 on ellyptical. Dr. McLane appt today. Its been 3 months of injury now. I am tired of it but resigned. Haven't cried since Sunday. More good news, my cream of wheat didn't explode in the microwave this morning -- a feat for me. Anyone else put hot chocolate powder in their cream of wheat instead of other sugar? Lyrics, "Oh, save your life, cause you only got one. . ." (marion did I already do this one?) Dr. McLane ordered an MRI, and I got it done late afternoon. Two actually, my back and my pelvic through mid-thigh. Man, MRI's are still so loud. And what is the most painful for my injury? Laying on a hard surface, exactly what I got to do for a full hour. I listened to Snow Patrol. Too bad the MRI was too loud to hear the lyrics on some of the songs I wasn't familiar with. The MRI will be read by the radiologist tomorrow, and he will be calling Dr. McLane. I'll have the MRI results sent to Steve Orrock too, so we'll get plenty of analysis out of those suckers. Good news: the two together cost me $433, so not bad for two. Period started, last one was 12/9, so a 4.66 months in between.
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