Owie is Minnesota-speak for injury. Usually said in one of those sugary-sweet tones of voice adults sometimes use to children as in, “Do you have an owie?”
Yes, I certainly do.
I’m not sure exactly what the doctor said. It was something like, “inflammation of the Achilles bursa.” Which basically means sharp pain in the back of the heel.
Does mine hurt? No. Not, if I don’t move. Trying to walk, however, is very painful.
So, the doctor gave me stretching exercises to do. That’s right. If it hurts to move, the treatment is to move it. Not just to move it but to stretch and hold the sore part of your body. As odd as that sounds it works. When I stretch that tendon before I get up, it hurts less to walk.
The other part of the bad news is the doctor said healing is measured in weeks not days.
So much for my exercise program.
The good news is I’ve now lost 10.4 pounds in spite of how little I exercise.
And things are still going better for me than they are for this guy. Check out his license plate.
TTYL,
Linda
Sooooo sorry to hear about your heel. That has to be very painful. Keep up the exercises. Keep up the good work on losing the weight. All those pounds with little exercise. Wait until you are completely healthy…you will be in that bikini before the summer is over.
You definitely have an owie. When I ruptured my Achilles tendon (and broke my ankle) after I finally got out of the casts, the doctor told me the vest therapy was to walk. That helped to stretch it back out to almost normal again. I limped really bad and didn’t go far the first while. But eventually it really did work. So keep up the stretching. And 10 lbs is really great. Bikini, huh?
Now here is a voice from the past! OMG, it’s Bill Gentry.
I’m sitting here at my office at Allina Hospitals & Clinics, talking about Dave with a former co-worker of his, Brijinder Singh, and was showing him your blog.
I saw the issue with the pain in the heel. I had a similar issue a few years ago. It was so painful when walking, and the problem happened just before I had to spend a week at a conference in Las Vegas.
When I returned from Vegas, I went to a foot doctor who said that I need shoes with more arch support. He pointed me to a couple of shoe brands that had better support. I switched to Rockport shoes and the problem went away. I hope the solution is as simple in your case.
Give Dave my best wishes!
—Bill