Today I woke up feeling a bit uncomfortable; I straightened the immobilizer out a fair amount last night (too much it seems for comfortable sleep).\u00a0 Hard to get going but once I started the PT I felt much better.\u00a0 I started with the standing weight-shift which I bumped up to 4 minutes.\u00a0 Then on to passive extension (5 minutes); heel slides (20); the 3 leg raises (25 each) and finally hamstring stretch (1 minute).\u00a0 During PT I decided today is the day to get back to the office, so I texted my co-worker and got my ride worked out.\u00a0 Kammy got back from dropping Z off and helped me get ready for my first day back.\u00a0 Getting to the office was fairly uneventful since all of us had done this before when I was recovering from the initial injury.\u00a0 Now\u2026let\u2019s see how this day goes.<\/p>\n
I am fortunate to have a desk job.\u00a0 I\u2019m a web programmer\/developer and can work from home.\u00a0 That said\u2026since I manage people it\u2019s better to be in the office.\u00a0 Work was uncomfortable but manageable.\u00a0 Really, I think being there took my mind off of my hamstring a lot of the time.\u00a0 Offsetting that was that I have to go a lot further to do anything.\u00a0 Oh, and I have to do it.<\/p>\n
I have a co-worker that I carpool with who has been kind enough to do all of the driving during my non-mobile parts of recovery.\u00a0 He\u2019s gracious enough to give me door-to-door service during the \u2018worst\u2019 of the days.\u00a0 Today he dropped me right out front so all I had to navigate was 5 steps up, 2 doors, 1 elevator and about 50 steps back to my office.\u00a0 From my office it\u2019s about 25 steps to the kitchen (important for coffee and my icepack) or bathroom (just important).<\/p>\n
Workday was uneventful except for lunch (more on that to come).\u00a0 My hamstring hurt most of the day (I still have a significant full-time Charlie-horse) but thankfully I had no muscle spasms.\u00a0 The day was going well!\u00a0 I went downstairs for lunch with some co-workers (50 steps across the office, 1 elevator, 10 steps to the pub, and 4 steps down\u2026table!).\u00a0 Just after the food was served I got a server message that one of my servers was about to crash.\u00a0 A quick phone call or two and I realized I was going to have to go back up to my office.\u00a0 The server problem actually resolved itself while I was walking back up (thanks to good MySQL configuration, thanks Wes!) but of course my lunch was cold by the time I got back down there at my gimpy pace.\u00a0 No other excitement came along.<\/p>\n
My hamstring was feeling more like it would spasm once I got home.\u00a0 I just couldn\u2019t find a comfortable position no matter what I tried.\u00a0 Finally I broke down and took some ibuprofen.\u00a0 Then massaged it some and tried to relax.\u00a0 Evening PT went very well except for the hamstring which still wanted to spasm on me.\u00a0 I was able to keep it at bay but just barely.\u00a0 Tonight I did 4 Minutes of \u2018shift\u2019, 5 of passive extension, 30 each of front and side leg raises but only 25 of the stomach ones, due to hamstring; I came very close to muscle spasm part way through.\u00a0 I rounded out PT with 20 heel slides and hamstring stretch.\u00a0 I did not ice afterward because Kammy was too tired to go get the ice pack and I didn\u2019t feel up to doing the stairs again.\u00a0 Tomorrow it\u2019s time for PT at Tria; I\u2019ll be excited to see what progress I have made since last Thursday.<\/p>\n
I Stayed up too late\u2026really should have iced!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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