Friday, October 04, 2024

Tip Toe Thru the Tulips

On Monday, someone at the gym called me 'Tiny Tim'. 

I assumed it was because of my crutches, but as I typed the above line, I am now hoping it wasn't meant as a reference to the 1960's ukulele player who appeared on Laugh-In and the likes. 

A poor crippled boy whose father's boss is a penny pinching prick would have to be better, no? 

Yes, I hobble into the gym every day - even weekends now that I'm not running on those days - to get my hour in on the bike. 

What are the odds kids* these days even know who the falsetto / vibrato'ing Tiny Tim even was?  Or what Laugh-In was. Or the 60s!

Sock it to me, indeed. 

I did have my two week ortho follow-up this last Monday. Things seem to be going ok? So says the doc. I kept him for the full appointment time, peppering with questions and suggestions. 

First off - two more weeks (less now) on crutches, then transition to a cane. And starting now, I can do very limited weight bearing on my bad leg. I haven't really done that yet as I feel a few more days of nothing will help healing, no? 

Then I'll do a week on the cane before my next return. After that, I'll probably still have another week on the cane. We'll talk about returning to running after that and how I'm feeling. It'll be nice to be able to walk the dog and such with going to the cane. 

We focused on the stress fracture so much the last few weeks, this time I really talked about the 'complex tear in the anterior labrum'.  That I'm less thrilled about, but that might be more my own angst vs reality.

Where the labrum in question resides, would result in pain in my left groin. I don't have pain there. Which is good. The bad is: labrums in fact do not repair on their own. Ever. The blood supply there is low and even surgery is less than optimal should it ever be needed at all.

He doesn't think it will. He said if he did 100 MRIs on men "my age" (ouch!), 50% of them would have torn labrums - they just don't know it. Like me. The pain I'm having isn't anywhere near the the labrum in question. And even before potential surgery (should it ever come to that) would be a steroid injection..................into the groin. 

I visibly winced at that. He laughed. Always funny when you're not the one getting it. 

We will see what the next 9-10 days brings. I still have some pain, but not as much. I know I'm not 100% compliant with 100% non-weight bearing. But it has only been two weeks. I didn't expect to be magically healed even if I had been fully compliant. 

Slow and steady, as they say. 



* anyone under 45. 



Song by: Tiny Tim

2 comments:

Travel said...

Sometimes our bodies tell us to slow down a little.

Unknown said...

See if you can talk your Doc into letting you use trekking poles instead of a cane. Your body alignment will be more natural and you will appear 'sporty' rather than disabled.

Will Jay