What a week. This is gonna be bit different cause nothing was really happening.
On Monday I was waiting for the call to set up my bone scan. I was expecting that to be quite quick procedure but I've learned that it might take anywhere between 4-5hrs to get it done! First you gotta go there to be injected with radioactive dye and then you have to wait for couple of hours and come back for the actual images. Who knew?! Well definitely not me 😅. So that left me with only one option and that was to set it up for Saturday.
It was a weird day and I was really thinking about everything. This post I made on IG sums it up:
"Am I just a lil b*tch with this "injury"? Am I just overthinking it? Is it even justified for me to go get the bone scan? I've been thinking about it all day today. I'm om my feet moving all day and my foot doesn't hurt. It's bruised tho and I still can't move my toes without pain and my foot in certain ways. This goal/training means a lot to me. That's why I kinda panicked and went to ER. I wanna make sure I'm doing everything right so I have the best chance in accomplishing my goals. I don't wanna be running on potentially stress fracture for sure. But again, is there even anything? I feel almost like there isn't and I'm just a fool. On one hand I kinda want something to be there so I don't look stupid but on the other, I definitely don't wanna be injured and have to take time off, I wanna train and keep getting better.
I guess this is stupid. But it is what it is."
Because my foot was feeling pretty good after all day at work on it, we decided to test it out on Tuesday for an easy walk/run workout. 2mins run with 3 mins walk for 45mins to see how that feels. It was good! Actually I haven't felt this good on a treadmill in a really long time! I even ran on a much higher speed than I usually do for my easy runs and it felt fine! Like I was actually enjoying it and didn't feel like it was hard. Interesting haha. Nothing was hurting tho. No pain, no discomfort. So that was a good thing.
Unfortunately on Wednesday I started to feel like I'm getting sick. Woke up with a sore throat. So decided not to push it any further and took the day to rest and see how that goes. Foot was still sore with certain movements but not when walking/standing. Thursday was basically the same and so I skipped my planned walk/run too. Friday morning seemed like it's all good but then through the day the sore throat came back and it was really bugging me. So nothing for Friday either.
Not gonna lie, this really suck. It's hard to differentiate between "I'm sick, I should rest so it doesn't get worse" and "It's just sore throat, you are fine, go do something!" I guess maybe luckily for me - because of the foot and this, I'm just taking it easy. Hopefully one week won't make a difference and I'll be back in full force next week until I get my results too. Let's hope it's all good!
I don't know why or how did I think that getting the bone scan at 7:45am on Saturday is a good idea 😅. But I wasn't happy getting up that early. Anyways - few notes about the whole procedure: I got there, filled some papers and then waited for few mins. Got in the room, answered some additional questions and then I was told how this is gonna go. They will injected me with this radioactive substance and then I'll go up on the table and they will check how my blood is flowing. Then I'll go home and come back in few hours. I wasn't scared or anything just little bit worried about that radioactive stuff haha, that's kinda freaky. But didn't feel any pain or weird feeling while or after. I was back in 2hrs. First, they did 3 different angles of my feet and all 3 lasted 5mins. I gotta say, staying still is way harder than it looks 😅. Trying not to move your legs or toes is hard in certain positions 🤣. And then the final one was for 15mins. I could have my phone with me so the time was passing pretty fast. It was all kinda cool.
Rest of the day I did nothing cause to my delight, I started to feel worse. Stuffed nose, slight headache...just great. Sunday was the same. Like whyyyyyy, I'm so over this.
To my surprise, I got the results in my HealthAlberta Inbox in the afternoon! No stress fracture in my left foot! Wohooooo! But there is something degenerative in my right foot 🥴. Not really sure what that means and if it's an issue, probably not for right now. Okay, foot's good so now I just need to get.rif of this sickness so I can keep grinding again! Let's gooooo!
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