The Best is Yet to Come

…..is pretty much the color of the rather angry looking bruises on my right leg that remain 3 weeks after sustaining my initial hamstring injury. It looks as though I messed up my calf and knee, as well….and I still have new bruises coming to the surface - mainly on my knee.

Am able to almost walk normally now, which is a bonus over the first week where I was on crutches and the day I pulled my hamstring and hyperextended my right let and couldn’t walk at all, requiring an ambulance just to get to the ER to make sure I didn’t do any more serious damage than the level 3 hamstring pull.

Not sure quite how much muscle tissue was torn, but I’m happy that I’m finally seeing some good improvement in my function again. Can’t do any hamstring curls anytime soon, but I’m doing very light elliptical cardio and starting next week, plan to do some extremely mild leg workouts.

Massage therapy is helping greatly in reducing the muscle aches and in reducing my healing time, and for that I’m extremely grateful.

As for everything else, it’s been a very busy summer and my aunt just had her first round of chemo for her lung cancer…..they also discovered the beginning stages of uterine cancer which is apparently completely unrelated. Obviously, the lung cancer is far more grave and that is the focus. She seems to be in good spirits and was surprised that she dealt with this first treatment much better than she thought she would.

I’ll try to be better about updating, but when I’m injured or sick I tend to suck at keeping up with things - working on trying not to be an all or nothing sort of person and thankfully, even through the injury, I’ve kept my diet mostly in check despite the 4th of July and my birthday and haven’t gained any weight eve though my physical activity has been hindered.

Getting back to the light cardio is a big help, so I’m much more motivated than I was 2 weeks ago.