Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
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From: "Eric Weir" <eew...@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: OT - Update on the Injury Front
On Feb 13, 2011, at 4:31 PM, frank theriault wrote:
So, a three weeks ago I get the green light to get back on the bike,
and the next day I notice a somewhat acute (but bearable) pain where I
know the Achilles tendon to be. I continue to ride, hoping I can
"work through it" and it might go away.
Alas, after three days of "working through it", I realize that
although it's not getting worse, it's also not getting better, so off
to the hospital I go. Sure enough, it's Achilles tendinosis (the new
word for Achilles tendinitis). Not bad, just inflamed (and swollen as
hell), due to getting back on the bike too quickly after 6 weeks off.
I went for a follow-up last weekend, and they told me to stay off the
bike for another two weeks (meaning that, hopefully, next week will be
my last doing the courier thing on-foot-and-transit). Luckily it
doesn't hurt at all to walk.
Lots of icing and stretching exercises, and this week it's feeling the
best it has since the occurance, plus the swelling it almost gone.
If you're lucky, like me, it'll snap off at the attachment, the doc can
nail it back in place, and you'll be good as new, without any irritating
tendinitis -- err, tendinosis.
Or if you're unlucky like me it could snap & you would have been in a full
leg cast for 3 months !
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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA
eew...@bellsouth.net
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