Muse back!
July 08, 2008 / Tuesday
Please To Be Reoxygenating Now, Me
A couple weeks ago, I scheduled a doctor's appointment for today to have several of my (weeks and months long) nagging injuries looked at. Last week, most of those injuries magically healed and the worst one got a lot better. I went to my appointment anyway to make sure I was okay, and figured I'd ask about my feeling of general blech since last Wednesday.
She checked out all the injuries I told her about and was pleased that most of them are gone now. She paid my left foot some extra attention and after hearing me describe all the things that did and didn't make it hurt told me that I probably had a stress fracture. A stress fracture! Yucks. I'm supposed to stretch more before I exercise. Apparently, I don't do it enough. Oh wait, I don't do it at all. D'oh. She gave me some tips on how to manage the tennis elbow, also.
I asked about my lingering nausea and elevated heart rate (resting at 75 right now instead of 60) and she told me that the effects of altitude sickness could last up to a couple weeks. So, one more week of this? I wonder how I'll do on my flights this weekend. I hear they pressurize to the equivalent of only 8,000 feet on long hauls.
Despite still feeling blech, I'm satisfied to have something of an explanation for the blechness, and for that stupid foot. I limped for days on that thing last month! Glad it's (mostly) happy again.
[ Next day update: Tennis elbow is worsening again. I think it was just behaving for the doctor. ]
July 8, 2008 11:46 AM | Injuries
Comments
Flights aren't usually a problem as you tend to be less active, so even at (a virtual) 8,000 feet, you don't notice as much. If you were in South America you could have a cup of coca leaf tea which helps with the symptoms quite nicely.
Posted by: Mike at July 8, 2008 06:44 PM
Added more pictures of St. Petersburg and Church of the Spilled Blood to my Flickr account. Will add you as a friend so you can see them.
Posted by: Candi at July 8, 2008 07:55 PM