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Thanks, !! This has been really frustrating. I thought it was fine, then it started up again. My podiatrist is frustrated too so hopefully, he'll come up with a creative solution this week! Thanks for backing me up on the not aggravating the soreness too. I feel a little like I'm wimping out but then again, I've dealt with so many injuries and healing from surgeries that I just feel better too backing off completely until I know I'm good to go. I'd rather not have to deal with greater injury because I wanted to stick with a rotation or just didn't want to wimp out. I'd rather be a healthy wimp than a really messed up gimp (been there, done that and it didn't work)! :-)

Re: week in review - 9.33 hours> >> sometimes they turn out good and sometimes it looks like I'm stoned.>> you had better stop hanging out in the bathrooms at laurelhurst> park then....heehee> i love reading about your running adventures. not much action> happening on my walks to report so im boring (except that chinook> almost got skunked on saturday)> :*carolyn.>>> ------------------------------------>>

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, I hope you get some answers and good advice soon. You have a very healthy attitude about this. It sometimes takes more guts to face up to the signals, and then to back down, you know? It takes some faith in yourself, faith that you'll ramp back up once you've allowed yourself to heal and recover. That's what you always do. 

Since it takes patience and guts to stop and recover, it means that you are not wimpy at all. It shows that you are not impulsive and that you proceed mindfully. Gutsy and wise. 

I'm so sorry to hear your foot is still giving you grief  Foot pain for me is the worst because it means I can't walk, run, or do kickboxing, my most favorite workouts to do!  The soreness in your pectoral region is of concern and you're smart not to aggravate it. 

I hope it all heals soon!Hugs

I like reading about your running in all kinds of weather and still loving

it!

It is absolutely gorgeous here, sunny and almost 50, very unFebruary like in

Michigan, but my foot has started up again and I don't dare go for a walk

although I do want to. I've been having issues with my reconstructed breast

too. Not sure if it is muscular, scar tissue or what but after I did some

pretty intense Cathe's, after the DOMS faded, I still had a lot of

discomfort as I moved my left arm that I finally traced to, I think, areas

along the scar line. So... I've been sidelined for the last week or so,

afraid to do much cardio or lower body because then I'm in too much foot

pain and afraid to do much upper body because I'm not sure what is going on

there. I'm seeing my oncologist on Wednesday (for a check of unrelated

issues) and my podiatrist Thursday so hopefully I'll have answers and

resolution. I'm missing my workouts (but have to admit I am enjoying the bit

of extra time I have each day which is making me less likely to try things

like lower body floor workouts, which I could probably do, I'm a bit afraid

of much core work though because so much of that calls on chest muscles

too). I'll get back to my stuff by next week, I think. In the meantime, I'm

reading and enjoying the running and other workout reports I'm reading here!

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>

>> sometimes they turn out good and sometimes it looks like I'm stoned.

>

> you had better stop hanging out in the bathrooms at laurelhurst

> park then....heehee

> i love reading about your running adventures.   not much action

> happening on my walks to report so im boring (except that chinook

> almost got skunked on saturday)

> :*carolyn.

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Absolutely, !!! I hope you feel better and get answers soon. Extra ((HUGS))

Donna>> sometimes they turn out good and sometimes it looks like I'm stoned.>> you had better stop hanging out in the bathrooms at laurelhurst> park then....heehee> i love reading about your running adventures. not much action> happening on my walks to report so im boring (except that chinook> almost got skunked on saturday)> :*carolyn.>>> ------------------------------------>>

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Oh my goodness, ... thank you so, so much for this note. When I read this I realized that yes, I do, finally have the faith in myself that I will ramp back up as soon as I'm ready, that I'm not truly wimping out because I'm not giving up at all, as I have in the past. I think that's what I was afraid of, that by backing off, I was giving up. But I'm not, I'm really comfortable with my decision this time and you helped me realize that. I am really just trying to take care of myself the best way I know how, even if others wouldn't be so cautious (they possibly also haven't been through as many surgeries as I have or heard warnings from their doctors about the consequences of too much too soon or they might be more cautious too). I'd never thought of things the way you put it but I am now, thanks so much.

I'm seeing my oncologist tomorrow afternoon and will hopefully have some answers about what I'm experiencing in that region. The discomfort has faded a lot so I'm less concerned but still want to know what it is, is it normal and do I have to do anything differently with my weight training or whatever else he has to say. He thinks he's seeing me as scheduled from 4 months ago to discuss blood test results from the last few months, trying to determine whether I have some new disease or not (as of last appointment it was probably not so I'm a lot less concerned about that than what I can do as far as my Cathe workouts go!) :-) Thursday morning my footie doctor and I will talk about else to do for my foot. He gave me another cortisone shot last week and it did diddly squat. I'm waking up every few hours (as soon as the Tylenol 3 wears off) in pain but it is very good during the day walking around, so that's a lot better at least.

Thanks again for your encouragement, , it really helped my perspective and feelings about myself!

Re: week in review - 9.33 hours> >> sometimes they turn out good and sometimes it looks like I'm stoned.>> you had better stop hanging out in the bathrooms at laurelhurst> park then....heehee> i love reading about your running adventures. not much action> happening on my walks to report so im boring (except that chinook> almost got skunked on saturday)> :*carolyn.>>> ------------------------------------>>

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Thank you SO much, Donna!!! The encouragement and hugs mean so much to me!!!

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Absolutely, !!! I hope you feel better and get answers soon. Extra ((HUGS))

Donna>> sometimes they turn out good and sometimes it looks like I'm stoned.>> you had better stop hanging out in the bathrooms at laurelhurst> park then....heehee> i love reading about your running adventures. not much action> happening on my walks to report so im boring (except that chinook> almost got skunked on saturday)> :*carolyn.>>> ------------------------------------>>

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.... I've been sidelined for the last week or so,afraid to do much cardio or lower body because then I'm in too much footpain and afraid to do much upper body because I'm not sure what is going onthere.

Oh my goodness, I missed your post somehow, .

I hope you find some answers for your foot. That must be awful to deal with.

Let us know what you find out today.

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Thanks, !

It is still the darn pinched nerve bothering me, I'm not even sure how many months later now (but almost 2 months of treatment). The doc gave me a cortisone shot right into the nerve (or darn near close to it) yesterday. All I can say is that I have never, in my entire 45 years, had a shot as painful as that. The location was bad enough (top of my foot between my 3rd & 4th toes or 4th & 5th, can't remember and I have shoes on and I don't want to check right now) but then he holds the needle in there FOREVER slowly pushing in more burning medicine. OH WOW. It hurt so bad. I forced myself to relax and breath through it though and that helped (thank you child birth preparation and yoga). The injection site is very bruised today and that area at the top of my foot hurts so much still. I took 600 mg ibuprfofen 3.5 hours ago and it still hurts, just not as much. I almost took a Tylenol 3 and now I'm wishing I had. I might later if it gets bad again but hopefully it will just settle down by then. The bottom of the foot, where the pinched nerve is, is numb and has been since the shot at 8 AM yesterday. It will probably stay numb for most of this morning, maybe into afternoon. It feels like I'm walking on a ball or something, just feels weird and uncomfortable but not too painful. This HAS to do the trick... it just does! :-)

My appointment with my oncologist Wednesday was rescheduled twice (on their end, not mine) with it finally ending up being today at 1. I can't even meet with the doc now, I'm seeing his Physician's Assistant (PA), which is fine except most of this appointment is about discussing recent blood tests to see if I have some weird disease or am just weird (most likely it is the latter). I told them when they rescheduled it again that while I have no problem with a PA for routine visits, for something like this I prefer to see him and they said she'll (the PA) be able to reach him by phone if necessary so hopefully that will be fine. Of course, I will also discuss the weird pains I've had in my incision area which are now almost completely gone. Obviously, they were related to my Cathe workouts, but I want to find out if I did any damage or have the potential of doing any damage with future workouts. We'll see if she knows (if she doesn't, I'll probably be sent to my plastic surgeon who did the last surgery 2 years ago). Fun, fun.

Now I'm sitting on the couch avoiding work things that need to be done and that I could certainly do just sitting here. I don't even really have to stand up to get them since they're all next to the couch. Hum dee dum, what else can I do to avoid doing them (it is my day off anyway)?! :-)

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.... I've been sidelined for the last week or so,afraid to do much cardio or lower body because then I'm in too much footpain and afraid to do much upper body because I'm not sure what is going onthere.

Oh my goodness, I missed your post somehow, .

I hope you find some answers for your foot. That must be awful to deal with.

Let us know what you find out today.

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Hugs on the shot / sensation of walking on a ball.   I think you need to watch the first season of a favorite or new tv series and snuggle on the couch with a pet or a blanket and enjoy resting it up!TY  for the birthday wishes!  

Hugs

 



Thanks, !

 

It is still the darn pinched nerve bothering me, I'm not even sure how many months later now (but almost 2 months of treatment). The doc gave me a cortisone shot right into the nerve (or darn near close to it) yesterday. All I can say is that I have never, in my entire 45 years, had a shot as painful as that. The location was bad enough (top of my foot between my 3rd & 4th toes or 4th & 5th, can't remember and I have shoes on and I don't want to check right now) but then he holds the needle in there FOREVER slowly pushing in more burning medicine. OH WOW. It hurt so bad. I forced myself to relax and breath through it though and that helped (thank you child birth preparation and yoga). The injection site is very bruised today and that area at the top of my foot hurts so much still. I took 600 mg ibuprfofen 3.5 hours ago and it still hurts, just not as much. I almost took a Tylenol 3 and now I'm wishing I had. I might later if it gets bad again but hopefully it will just settle down by then. The bottom of the foot, where the pinched nerve is, is numb and has been since the shot at 8 AM yesterday. It will probably stay numb for most of this morning, maybe into afternoon. It feels like I'm walking on a ball or something, just feels weird and uncomfortable but not too painful. This HAS to do the trick... it just does! :-)

 

My appointment with my oncologist Wednesday was rescheduled twice (on their end, not mine) with it finally ending up being today at 1. I can't even meet with the doc now, I'm seeing his Physician's Assistant (PA), which is fine except most of this appointment is about discussing recent blood tests to see if I have some weird disease or am just weird (most likely it is the latter). I told them when they rescheduled it again that while I have no problem with a PA for routine visits, for something like this I prefer to see him and they said she'll (the PA) be able to reach him by phone if necessary so hopefully that will be fine. Of course, I will also discuss the weird pains I've had in my incision area which are now almost completely gone. Obviously, they were related to my Cathe workouts, but I want to find out if I did any damage or have the potential of doing any damage with future workouts. We'll see if she knows (if she doesn't, I'll probably be sent to my plastic surgeon who did the last surgery 2 years ago). Fun, fun.

 

Now I'm sitting on the couch avoiding work things that need to be done and that I could certainly do just sitting here. I don't even really have to stand up to get them since they're all next to the couch. Hum dee dum, what else can I do to avoid doing them (it is my day off anyway)?! :-)

 

 

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.... I've been sidelined for the last week or so,afraid to do much cardio or lower body because then I'm in too much footpain and afraid to do much upper body because I'm not sure what is going onthere.

 

Oh my goodness, I missed your post somehow, .

 

I hope you find some answers for your foot.  That must be awful to deal with.   

Let us know what you find out today.

 

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Oh, , that sounds incredibly painful!! I hope you feel better ASAP.

re: your breast pain, I bet it was just irritated by the push-ups, chest work you did w/ Cathe. I actually had breast surgery in 2003 (due to a really, really bad case of mastitis that needed to be surgically addressed) and I have a scar that sometimes "twinges". Let us know how everything goes, I"m thinking if they are having you meet w/ the PA then there is really nothing serious to worry about re: your blood tests.

More ((HUGS))

Donna

Subject: Re: , hugsTo: exercisevideos Date: Friday, February 10, 2012, 9:03 AM

 Thanks, !

It is still the darn pinched nerve bothering me, I'm not even sure how many months later now (but almost 2 months of treatment). The doc gave me a cortisone shot right into the nerve (or darn near close to it) yesterday. All I can say is that I have never, in my entire 45 years, had a shot as painful as that. The location was bad enough (top of my foot between my 3rd & 4th toes or 4th & 5th, can't remember and I have shoes on and I don't want to check right now) but then he holds the needle in there FOREVER slowly pushing in more burning medicine. OH WOW. It hurt so bad. I forced myself to relax and breath through it though and that helped (thank you child birth preparation and yoga). The injection site is very bruised today and that area at the top of my foot hurts so much still. I took 600 mg ibuprfofen 3.5 hours ago and it still hurts, just not as much. I almost took a Tylenol 3 and now I'm wishing I

had. I might later if it gets bad again but hopefully it will just settle down by then. The bottom of the foot, where the pinched nerve is, is numb and has been since the shot at 8 AM yesterday. It will probably stay numb for most of this morning, maybe into afternoon. It feels like I'm walking on a ball or something, just feels weird and uncomfortable but not too painful. This HAS to do the trick... it just does! :-)

My appointment with my oncologist Wednesday was rescheduled twice (on their end, not mine) with it finally ending up being today at 1. I can't even meet with the doc now, I'm seeing his Physician's Assistant (PA), which is fine except most of this appointment is about discussing recent blood tests to see if I have some weird disease or am just weird (most likely it is the latter). I told them when they rescheduled it again that while I have no problem with a PA for routine visits, for something like this I prefer to see him and they said she'll (the PA) be able to reach him by phone if necessary so hopefully that will be fine. Of course, I will also discuss the weird pains I've had in my incision area which are now almost completely gone. Obviously, they were related to my Cathe workouts, but I want to find out if I did any damage or have the potential of doing any damage with future workouts. We'll see if she knows

(if she doesn't, I'll probably be sent to my plastic surgeon who did the last surgery 2 years ago). Fun, fun.

Now I'm sitting on the couch avoiding work things that need to be done and that I could certainly do just sitting here. I don't even really have to stand up to get them since they're all next to the couch. Hum dee dum, what else can I do to avoid doing them (it is my day off anyway)?! :-)

Re: , hugs

.... I've been sidelined for the last week or so,afraid to do much cardio or lower body because then I'm in too much footpain and afraid to do much upper body because I'm not sure what is going onthere.

Oh my goodness, I missed your post somehow, .

I hope you find some answers for your foot. That must be awful to deal with.

Let us know what you find out today.

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The doc gave me a cortisone shot right into the nerve

That made me cringe just thinking about it. I remember my MIL having to have one in her hip. We were waiting outside the room for her and heard her start crying. She said it was the worst pain ever.

I hope you get everything health wise worked out. I feel for you.....

Take care of yourself.

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Thanks ! I did do a little bit of that kind of stuff. Sat on the couch just playing video games for a while then got most of my paperwork done while watching Storage Wars (silly show but entertaining).

Then went to my appointment, now am home waiting for the big kid to come home. Minimizing walking and time is helping, it is feeling a lot better than this morning but still pretty uncomfortable. Hopefully all will be well by tomorrow morning or else I'll be doing 3 WW classes from a chair! :-)

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.... I've been sidelined for the last week or so,afraid to do much cardio or lower body because then I'm in too much footpain and afraid to do much upper body because I'm not sure what is going onthere.

Oh my goodness, I missed your post somehow, .

I hope you find some answers for your foot. That must be awful to deal with.

Let us know what you find out today.

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Thanks, Donna!

I just had my appointment and although my white cell count was a little low, as it often is, I'm not having and never have had any illnesses or issues that might signal a disease so I'm free for another 4 months. At that point, I get another blood test and, hopefully, the declare me totally fine, as they already think I am, but it will have been a year of monitoring and I turn up fine at that time too then I will be considered as healthy as anyone assumes I am.

The PA, who was super, said that she was certain the pain was just musculal/skeletal and that I'm absolutely fine. She was very happy to hear I was so into fitness and complimented me on doing everything I need to reduce my risk factors for a BC recurrence (maintain lean body mass, regular exercise of all types, healthy eating). So, I'm good to go back to upper body work. Hopefully, by Monday (the next day I'll realistically be able to fit workouts in comfortably) I can at least start doing upper body, core and lower body floor work again. I can't stand long enough and especially not with weights in my hands to do much upper body today and anything that requires me to brace or push my feet against the floor (like some core and lower body exercises) would also be too uncomfortable for now but, especially if the cortisone shot works some magic, I should be good to go by Monday. I haven't even planned a February rotation yet, I've been so frustrated by all this. I think I will start working on one later today or over the weekend though! :-)

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.... I've been sidelined for the last week or so,afraid to do much cardio or lower body because then I'm in too much footpain and afraid to do much upper body because I'm not sure what is going onthere.

Oh my goodness, I missed your post somehow, .

I hope you find some answers for your foot. That must be awful to deal with.

Let us know what you find out today.

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I can empathize! The worst shot I ever got was a cortisone into the wrist. Never

again! That CAUSED more pain than it was supposed to help!

While the foot cortisone shots I get were very unpleasant, they always helped me

for quite a while. I hope yours does, too!!

Indyrose

>

> Thanks, !

>

> It is still the darn pinched nerve bothering me, I'm not even sure how many

months later now (but almost 2 months of treatment). The doc gave me a cortisone

shot right into the nerve (or darn near close to it) yesterday. All I can say is

that I have never, in my entire 45 years, had a shot as painful as that. The

location was bad enough (top of my foot between my 3rd & 4th toes or 4th & 5th,

can't remember and I have shoes on and I don't want to check right now) but then

he holds the needle in there FOREVER slowly pushing in more burning medicine. OH

WOW. It hurt so bad. I forced myself to relax and breath through it though and

that helped (thank you child birth preparation and yoga). The injection site is

very bruised today and that area at the top of my foot hurts so much still. I

took 600 mg ibuprfofen 3.5 hours ago and it still hurts, just not as much. I

almost took a Tylenol 3 and now I'm wishing I had. I might later if it gets bad

again but hopefully it will just settle down by then. The bottom of the foot,

where the pinched nerve is, is numb and has been since the shot at 8 AM

yesterday. It will probably stay numb for most of this morning, maybe into

afternoon. It feels like I'm walking on a ball or something, just feels weird

and uncomfortable but not too painful. This HAS to do the trick... it just does!

:-)

>

> My appointment with my oncologist Wednesday was rescheduled twice (on their

end, not mine) with it finally ending up being today at 1. I can't even meet

with the doc now, I'm seeing his Physician's Assistant (PA), which is fine

except most of this appointment is about discussing recent blood tests to see if

I have some weird disease or am just weird (most likely it is the latter). I

told them when they rescheduled it again that while I have no problem with a PA

for routine visits, for something like this I prefer to see him and they said

she'll (the PA) be able to reach him by phone if necessary so hopefully that

will be fine. Of course, I will also discuss the weird pains I've had in my

incision area which are now almost completely gone. Obviously, they were related

to my Cathe workouts, but I want to find out if I did any damage or have the

potential of doing any damage with future workouts. We'll see if she knows (if

she doesn't, I'll probably be sent to my plastic surgeon who did the last

surgery 2 years ago). Fun, fun.

>

> Now I'm sitting on the couch avoiding work things that need to be done and

that I could certainly do just sitting here. I don't even really have to stand

up to get them since they're all next to the couch. Hum dee dum, what else can I

do to avoid doing them (it is my day off anyway)?! :-)

>

>

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> Re: , hugs

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> In a message dated 2/7/2012 9:34:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

nancydewolf@... writes:

> ... I've been sidelined for the last week or so,

> afraid to do much cardio or lower body because then I'm in too much foot

> pain and afraid to do much upper body because I'm not sure what is going

on

> there.

>

> Oh my goodness, I missed your post somehow, .

>

> I hope you find some answers for your foot. That must be awful to deal

with.

>

> Let us know what you find out today.

>

> ~*´¨

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Dear, , Good. I'm glad that helped a bit. When you're in the middle of it, it's really hard to imagine that there's an end in sight, but you're helping things along by using your head. Hugs!

I work with so many athletes.  I don't know a single athlete who hasn't had to back down due to illness or injury.

Oh my goodness, ... thank you so, so much for this note. When I read this I realized that yes, I do, finally have the faith in myself that I will ramp back up as soon as I'm ready, that I'm not truly wimping out because I'm not giving up at all, as I have in the past. I think that's what I was afraid of, that by backing off, I was giving up. But I'm not, I'm really comfortable with my decision this time and you helped me realize that. I am really just trying to take care of myself the best way I know how, even if others wouldn't be so cautious (they possibly also haven't been through as many surgeries as I have or heard warnings from their doctors about the consequences of too much too soon or they might be more cautious too). I'd never thought of things the way you put it but I am now, thanks so much.

 

I'm seeing my oncologist tomorrow afternoon and will hopefully have some answers about what I'm experiencing in that region. The discomfort has faded a lot so I'm less concerned but still want to know what it is, is it normal and do I have to do anything differently with my weight training or whatever else he has to say. He thinks he's seeing me as scheduled from 4 months ago to discuss blood test results from the last few months, trying to determine whether I have some new disease or not (as of last appointment it was probably not so I'm a lot less concerned about that than what I can do as far as my Cathe workouts go!) :-) Thursday morning my footie doctor and I will talk about else to do for my foot. He gave me another cortisone shot last week and it did diddly squat. I'm waking up every few hours (as soon as the Tylenol 3 wears off) in pain but it is very good during the day walking around, so that's a lot better at least.

 

Thanks again for your encouragement, , it really helped my perspective and feelings about myself!

 

 

 

 

Re: week in review - 9.33 hours> >> sometimes they turn out good and sometimes it looks like I'm stoned.>> you had better stop hanging out in the bathrooms at laurelhurst> park then....heehee> i love reading about your running adventures.   not much action> happening on my walks to report so im boring (except that chinook> almost got skunked on saturday)> :*carolyn.>>> ------------------------------------>>

[Guest guest]

Shoot, I'm so sorry about that. It's too bad they can't numb the area first, or do this under some sedation.  I really feel for you!



Thanks, !

 

It is still the darn pinched nerve bothering me, I'm not even sure how many months later now (but almost 2 months of treatment). The doc gave me a cortisone shot right into the nerve (or darn near close to it) yesterday. All I can say is that I have never, in my entire 45 years, had a shot as painful as that. The location was bad enough (top of my foot between my 3rd & 4th toes or 4th & 5th, can't remember and I have shoes on and I don't want to check right now) but then he holds the needle in there FOREVER slowly pushing in more burning medicine. OH WOW. It hurt so bad. I forced myself to relax and breath through it though and that helped (thank you child birth preparation and yoga). The injection site is very bruised today and that area at the top of my foot hurts so much still. I took 600 mg ibuprfofen 3.5 hours ago and it still hurts, just not as much. I almost took a Tylenol 3 and now I'm wishing I had. I might later if it gets bad again but hopefully it will just settle down by then. The bottom of the foot, where the pinched nerve is, is numb and has been since the shot at 8 AM yesterday. It will probably stay numb for most of this morning, maybe into afternoon. It feels like I'm walking on a ball or something, just feels weird and uncomfortable but not too painful. This HAS to do the trick... it just does! :-)

 

My appointment with my oncologist Wednesday was rescheduled twice (on their end, not mine) with it finally ending up being today at 1. I can't even meet with the doc now, I'm seeing his Physician's Assistant (PA), which is fine except most of this appointment is about discussing recent blood tests to see if I have some weird disease or am just weird (most likely it is the latter). I told them when they rescheduled it again that while I have no problem with a PA for routine visits, for something like this I prefer to see him and they said she'll (the PA) be able to reach him by phone if necessary so hopefully that will be fine. Of course, I will also discuss the weird pains I've had in my incision area which are now almost completely gone. Obviously, they were related to my Cathe workouts, but I want to find out if I did any damage or have the potential of doing any damage with future workouts. We'll see if she knows (if she doesn't, I'll probably be sent to my plastic surgeon who did the last surgery 2 years ago). Fun, fun.

 

Now I'm sitting on the couch avoiding work things that need to be done and that I could certainly do just sitting here. I don't even really have to stand up to get them since they're all next to the couch. Hum dee dum, what else can I do to avoid doing them (it is my day off anyway)?! :-)

 

 

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.... I've been sidelined for the last week or so,afraid to do much cardio or lower body because then I'm in too much footpain and afraid to do much upper body because I'm not sure what is going onthere.

 

Oh my goodness, I missed your post somehow, .

 

I hope you find some answers for your foot.  That must be awful to deal with.   

Let us know what you find out today.

 

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Thanks, Indyrose! I hope it does too!! :-)

Re: , hugs> > > > > > > > ... I've been sidelined for the last week or so,> afraid to do much cardio or lower body because then I'm in too much foot> pain and afraid to do much upper body because I'm not sure what is going on> there.> > Oh my goodness, I missed your post somehow, .> > I hope you find some answers for your foot. That must be awful to deal with. > > Let us know what you find out today.> > ~*´¨> ¸ *.• ´¸.•*´¨ ¸.•*¨ > .•´ ¸ .*>

[Guest guest]



I thought about that afterwards and if they have to do another one I'm going to ask for something! "Hey Doc, can I have a shot to kill the pain of the shot?!" :-)

Re: , hugs

.... I've been sidelined for the last week or so,afraid to do much cardio or lower body because then I'm in too much footpain and afraid to do much upper body because I'm not sure what is going onthere.

Oh my goodness, I missed your post somehow, .

I hope you find some answers for your foot. That must be awful to deal with.

Let us know what you find out today.

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Whew! Good news, !  

 



Thanks, Donna!

 

I just had my appointment and although my white cell count was a little low, as it often is, I'm not having and never have had any illnesses or issues that might signal a disease so I'm free for another 4 months. At that point, I get another blood test and, hopefully, the declare me totally fine, as they already think I am, but it will have been a year of monitoring and I turn up fine at that time too then I will be considered as healthy as anyone assumes I am.

 

The PA, who was super, said that she was certain the pain was just musculal/skeletal and that I'm absolutely fine. She was very happy to hear I was so into fitness and complimented me on doing everything I need to reduce my risk factors for a BC recurrence (maintain lean body mass, regular exercise of all types, healthy eating). So, I'm good to go back to upper body work. Hopefully, by Monday (the next day I'll realistically be able to fit workouts in comfortably) I can at least start doing upper body, core and lower body floor work again. I can't stand long enough and especially not with weights in my hands to do much upper body today and anything that requires me to brace or push my feet against the floor (like some core and lower body exercises) would also be too uncomfortable for now but, especially if the cortisone shot works some magic, I should be good to go by Monday. I haven't even planned a February rotation yet, I've been so frustrated by all this. I think I will start working on one later today or over the weekend though! :-)

 

 

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.... I've been sidelined for the last week or so,afraid to do much cardio or lower body because then I'm in too much footpain and afraid to do much upper body because I'm not sure what is going onthere.

 

Oh my goodness, I missed your post somehow, .

 

I hope you find some answers for your foot.  That must be awful to deal with.   

Let us know what you find out today.

 

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I had one in my hip last week and I thought that was bad... until this. I didn't cry but that doesn't mean I didn't want to. I was thinking about how I wanted my kids to be proud of me!! Crazy, but it helped!

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The doc gave me a cortisone shot right into the nerve

That made me cringe just thinking about it. I remember my MIL having to have one in her hip. We were waiting outside the room for her and heard her start crying. She said it was the worst pain ever.

I hope you get everything health wise worked out. I feel for you.....

Take care of yourself.

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Yes, thanks!!!

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.... I've been sidelined for the last week or so,afraid to do much cardio or lower body because then I'm in too much footpain and afraid to do much upper body because I'm not sure what is going onthere.

Oh my goodness, I missed your post somehow, .

I hope you find some answers for your foot. That must be awful to deal with.

Let us know what you find out today.

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Really great news, ! I've had great experiences with physician's assistants. I bet you'll get creative and come up with something tailored to your needs. I bet they wish they had more patients like you. 



Thanks, Donna!

 

I just had my appointment and although my white cell count was a little low, as it often is, I'm not having and never have had any illnesses or issues that might signal a disease so I'm free for another 4 months. At that point, I get another blood test and, hopefully, the declare me totally fine, as they already think I am, but it will have been a year of monitoring and I turn up fine at that time too then I will be considered as healthy as anyone assumes I am.

 

The PA, who was super, said that she was certain the pain was just musculal/skeletal and that I'm absolutely fine. She was very happy to hear I was so into fitness and complimented me on doing everything I need to reduce my risk factors for a BC recurrence (maintain lean body mass, regular exercise of all types, healthy eating). So, I'm good to go back to upper body work. Hopefully, by Monday (the next day I'll realistically be able to fit workouts in comfortably) I can at least start doing upper body, core and lower body floor work again. I can't stand long enough and especially not with weights in my hands to do much upper body today and anything that requires me to brace or push my feet against the floor (like some core and lower body exercises) would also be too uncomfortable for now but, especially if the cortisone shot works some magic, I should be good to go by Monday. I haven't even planned a February rotation yet, I've been so frustrated by all this. I think I will start working on one later today or over the weekend though! :-)

 

 

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.... I've been sidelined for the last week or so,afraid to do much cardio or lower body because then I'm in too much footpain and afraid to do much upper body because I'm not sure what is going onthere.

 

Oh my goodness, I missed your post somehow, .

 

I hope you find some answers for your foot.  That must be awful to deal with.   

Let us know what you find out today.

 

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Thank you, !! I normally really like working with PAs too and this one was great. I do get along well with doctors because, although I question things, they usually realize it is in an effort to better understand what is going on and to better participate in the healing process and then I usually try to follow orders pretty well too. I'm a compliant patient especially when I understand the risks of not complying. Through my WW work too, I've learned how utterly frustrating non-compliant people are too, especially when they then complain about the results they get for it so I like to not be seen that way! ;-)

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.... I've been sidelined for the last week or so,afraid to do much cardio or lower body because then I'm in too much footpain and afraid to do much upper body because I'm not sure what is going onthere.

Oh my goodness, I missed your post somehow, .

I hope you find some answers for your foot. That must be awful to deal with.

Let us know what you find out today.

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Hi ,

I thought about what you'd said quite a bit more and realized this rest is very different from others for another reason... I'm not doing it because I'm frustrated or overwhelmed and giving up. I'm doing it because I know what it is like to reinjure myself because I've tried to push it too fast and then I've had double the frustration. I'm having faith in myself to know what is best for me, despite wanting to be back at my workouts and despite being inspired (and sometimes horrified) by others pushing through things to get back to theirs. The pain from the injection and the incredible bruising finally wore off by yesterday. My foot still doesn't feel perfectly right but it feels better. I'm going without any kind of pain med today and plan to tonight and am praying the pinched nerve doesn't rear its ugly head and wake me up tonight. I've got a lot going on this week so I'm good with playing it really quiet again most or all of this week. I go back to the podiatrist Thursday afternoon, hopefully all will be good then. I'll just have to wait and see. Backing down is sometimes good, it seems to be this time, I feel good about it anyway and am very glad for your support!

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Hi ,You are so wise! There's nothing like experience, and I know what you mean: it's hard to watch people plowing through when you know where it's headed. It really stinks to get reinjured, and it is hard to wait even though you know it's the best thing. Sometimes it's not just the danger of getting reinjured, sometimes you can end up with a permanent problem, so might even be more at stake. 

I'm trying to catch up with email, so I'm not sure how you're doing. I hope better!  

Hi ,

 

I thought about what you'd said quite a bit more and realized this rest is very different from others for another reason... I'm not doing it because I'm frustrated or overwhelmed and giving up. I'm doing it because I know what it is like to reinjure myself because I've tried to push it too fast and then I've had double the frustration. I'm having faith in myself to know what is best for me, despite wanting to be back at my workouts and despite being inspired (and sometimes horrified) by others pushing through things to get back to theirs. The pain from the injection and the incredible bruising finally wore off by yesterday. My foot still doesn't feel perfectly right but it feels better. I'm going without any kind of pain med today and plan to tonight and am praying the pinched nerve doesn't rear its ugly head and wake me up tonight. I've got a lot going on this week so I'm good with playing it really quiet again most or all of this week. I go back to the podiatrist Thursday afternoon, hopefully all will be good then. I'll just have to wait and see. Backing down is sometimes good, it seems to be this time, I feel good about it anyway and am very glad for your support!

 

 

Re: week in review - 9.33 hours> >> sometimes they turn out good and sometimes it looks like I'm stoned.>> you had better stop hanging out in the bathrooms at laurelhurst> park then....heehee> i love reading about your running adventures.   not much action> happening on my walks to report so im boring (except that chinook> almost got skunked on saturday)> :*carolyn.>>> ------------------------------------>>

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Hi ,

Thank you, again...

I had a visit with my podiatrist yesterday and actually saw one of his associates instead. He was also very good. The pain had returned, but not as badly as before, so that was positive. I told him about my experience with the last shot. He could see the bruise was still there and moved away from that site for another shot this week. He also felt my foot and said it was still pretty swollen and that the area that is affected is actually pretty large. Great. He said the usual procedure is 4 weeks of steroid shots (did that once before and it seemed to work then didn't so we're doing it again). Then, if that doesn't work, but it usually does he said, they switch to some kind of alcohol shot or something like that for 4 weeks and if that doesn't work then the next step is the s word... surgery and they remove the pinched nerve. I'm hoping this works. He suggested I ice it at night too and I keep forgetting to do that. Will have to start tomorrow.

He said the shot last week was very close to the nerve, that's why it hurt so much and because it hurt as much as it did, he did this week's away from that area but said it should still help. He said they could put it right into the nerve but then it would hurt even worse than last week's did (I was sure it had been put right into the nerve it hurt so badly, I can't imagine what that would be really like). This week's wasn't nearly like that and my foot only stayed numb for a day, not 2 or 3 and no bruising or other pain around the injection site. It was only yesterday though so we'll see what tonight's sleep brings (it hurts worse at night which I was also told is normal). Last night it was numb and felt fine to sleep. I think I'm going to try and workout starting Tuesday. I'm glad I got KCM's Start Here. I traded something for it but wasn't sure it would be good for me. Little did I know how good it might be for me. I'm thinking I'll do the weights workout Tuesday, the cardio Wednesday, the weights Thursday and then possibly both Friday or just do the weights again and see how it goes...

I'll keep you all informed. At least the pain I was having around my scar on my chest isn't bothering me too much anymore so that's a very positive thing. I'll see what doing Start Here weight workout does to that on Tuesday and then move on from there.

Cautiously moving forward,

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