My Inner Older Woman.

Many of you have asked what exactly is wrong with my leg.  Long live Twitterville for the outpouring of love and support.  I swear, my Twitter friends know more about my life sometimes.  Such is the world of social media I suppose.  Anyway, I guess that's my way of saying THANK YOU for caring.


About a week and a half ago, I was experiencing shin pain.  While I wanted to chalk it up to shin splints, I have experience with stress fractures, unfortunately, and knew that "localized" pain (meaning, in one spot) is usually indicative of a fracture.  With my ankle fracture, it hurt SO badly to run.  But with this lingering pain, I ran without pain and even PR'd in the 8K at the Shamrock Shuffle (don't tell my doctor).  So, imagine my surprise when I go in for my follow-up appointment after my MRI (the scans which I analyzed myself with my nonexistent medical degree), and I am told...


"The good news is that you do NOT have a fracture.  Your bone is not cracked."


So, I was all:

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(YEAH!  Life is good.  It's filled with smiles and cute babies and I can run!  WOOHOO!)

And then she followed up with: 


"However, you are having a stress reaction.  See these spots?  That's fluid in your bones.   That's not good.  You're basically old.  And calcium deficient (What?  My lattes don't count???).  And you need a bone scan.  This could be less of an overuse injury and more of a health problem.  It could be a hormonal imbalance (OMG.  She's been talking to my husband)." 


So, essentially, my doctor is trying to tell me that instead of looking like this:

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I look like this:

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My original thought?  And first question?  "I'm sure it will be fine.  I can totally run my half-marathon next weekend.  And the one in May.  And June.  And July."


She looked at me like this:

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In other words, while my bone isn't cracked, I need to treat it like it is.  Even if it doesn't hurt to run.   I am sure I will find out more with my bone scan, but for right now, there is fluid in my bones and they are angry about it.  I bet they'd be happy if the fluid was really wine.  So for six weeks, you can find me spinning and swimming and getting super buff.   And increasing my calcium intake.   More fro-yo for me!

And then, I will run.  A lot.  Get ready, people.  IT'S ON!