kinkoshinkai’s BodyBlog

Turns out my calf pain was not a strain.  OK, here’s the whole story.

3 weeks ago, give or take, I had just completed my leg training at the gym, and went to my boys’ church league basketball practice.  I ended up in a full-court 4-on-4 game.  A couple days later my leg was swollen and I couldn’t walk.  I dealt with it, iced it, got the swelling down and didn’t worry about the minor residual pain.  By last week, even that was gone, so I decided I might try a light leg work-out.  I did some leg extensions for high reps and some seated calf-raises in my garage.  Two days later, I’m awake all night with a swollen lower leg throbbing.  By the weekend I had developed a fever.  This is no simple leg strain.  I went to a friend/neighbor who is a physician, and during the office visit he prescribed a Doppler Duplex Ultrasound to check for a blood clot.  Sure enough, behind my right knee, a clot. 

The curse is the clot.  The blessing is that the doctor is my neighbor, and instead of hospitalization, I came home where he will inject the blood thinners in person while I take 2 days of bed rest.  How I’d survive if I didn’t have friends and students who were accountants, lawyers, doctors, plumbers, etc.  is beyond me.  One of my best friends is even half owner of a funeral home, when the time comes. (Knocking on a GIANT block of wood!!! lol)