My Right Foot II: Footpocalypse

Foot pains mentioned in previous post continued and I finally decided to do something about it.

In regards to my injured foot, I sucked it up through most of Wednesday and dealt with the pain.  Walking it off in this situation did not really do the trick.

I was content to just “rub some dirt on it” until my situation improved, but I had more than a few friends tell me “Oh, something like that happened to me and I ended up having a broken foot/stress fracture/bone termites! You should go to the doctor!”

With Fear running through me that this could be something much, much worse, I called up the doc and promptly made an appointment for the following morning.

He did the usual tests, touching a spot “does this hurt?”, lather/rinse/repeat.  He suggested I get X-Ray’d ASAP.  Wanting to put this pedal mystery behind me, I got to nearest Bone Picture Machine.  To make matters more humorous, the doc gave me a prescription for a “walking boot.” (see photo below).

While silly looking, this device did what it promised–I was able to walk again, and without much pain. Sure, I couldn’t drive with it, which caused me to dress in the height of fashion with one shoe and one flip-flop while in transit, but I could walk again.

The obvious sad news was that I could not take part in the Detroit Race for the Cure, the sole (see what I did there?) reason I had been training in the first place. But, the silver lining was that I was able to attend the wrap party for TEDx Lansing instead of dashing off to Detroit Friday night.

I heard back from the doc on Thursday afternoon, and thankfully I was in the clear in terms of broken foot/stress fracture/bone termite fears.

I just have to look like a weirdo with a robofoot for the next couple weeks. And I won’t be able to sneak up on anyone, as my stomping around sounds like something out a campfire ghost story.

Is my 5K racing season over before it started? I don’t think so. There are plenty of races well into the fall, and with any luck, I can still run in the Race for Education in mid-June, but I may play that one by ear…or perhaps, foot.