So WHAT happened to your leg?

With my injury in slow repair (finally), I've had a lot of folks asking what went wrong with the whole thing... here, to the best of my understanding, is a general rundown... (I claim absolutely no medical knowledge, please don't judge me...)

When I hit the floor last summer...

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Was pushed out of place, so that nifty little bone that the line points to was pushed out from under the overlying bone that comes down from the knee. At the same time...

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Got sent the wrong way when I hit my hip on the floor. When I went to physical therapy, they attempted to put my ankle back in place but didn't really do anything for it and at the end when I said it didn't feel quite right, they told me to just keep doing those exercises and I'd be A-OK. Note that they did NOT do anything for my hip, against my protests.

What I've come to understand from Carl (my new PT and possible wizard or some other practitioner of dark and magical arts) is that due to the position of my ankle...

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got so screwed up that my hips weren't functioning properly and my lower leg wasn't functioning properly and that caused my knee to go all wonky and give out!

So basically, we're re-strengthening my knees, re-aligning my hips, completely loosened up my hip flexors and abdominal muscles to re-train them, and did some crazy massive acupuncture on my calf (which didn't go deep enough, so now I have a huge knot next to a bundle of nerves which is KILLING me!). I'm sore, but doing a lot better now-- when I think about the fact that at this time last month I couldn't walk I'm amazed! I still have a long way to go before I can hit up Desiree's class again, but I walked all over Zoo Atlanta on Wednesday for the field trip and didn't want to die when I got home and Carl says he'll probably clear me to climb Stone Mountain next week! HOORAY FOR PROGRESS!

Oof

Tonight wasn't so great at work, though Jon and I had some good talk time. I never really mind the slow nights as much when I'm working with Jon, and Amy and Carter (his wife and son) stopped by which is always a pleasure-- Amy's really sweet and Carter is just the pudgiest, cutest little kid! He laughs at *everything*!

I did get my Blackberry back, but I'm going to have to re-enter all my information because whoever picked up my phone first obviously had no intention of returning it... the password had been reset and there were things that had been downloaded! I wish I could say I can't believe it, but I totally can. Since they changed the password, I had to wipe everything to get in to the phone. Awesome. So, if I should have your number, just e-mail or text it to me and I'll put it back in!

Mostly I just wanted to make the announcement about the crackberry being back, I'm about to take a muscle relaxer and sleep and hope that when I wake up in the morning, it doesn't feel like I've been kicked in the hip by a horse... ugh. Stupid bone structure.