Pig's Trotters

And so my ankle is still swollen. Not sure whether it was made worse when I asked my Dad to massage it on Sun night. Sigh.

Despite the mild pain, I resumed my exercise routines since ytd. By today I tot I better go consult another sinseh.

The sinseh saw my swollen ankle and exclaimed "wah!". There was little treatment done and he just pasted one ko yo on my ankle. He said to leave it on for 24 hours .... but the ko yo is proving too "potent" as i could feel it burning into my skin now.

Will likely be removing it soon else I couldn't sleep.

Sigh ... really hate this period.

Slow Mo

So I'm back to work today.

After 2 days of MC, I think my brain sorta shut down, and I felt like its another torturous Monday. So Monday blues is inevitable ..... argh!

Ankle is feeling much better, but I still did not dare to risk it by walking my usual pace. Somehow it still bothered me enough to make me walk very slowly .... I felt like some preggie lady taking every step oh-so-slowly. Really not used to the pace, but I kept reminding myself not to hurt my ankle anymore than I already had.

Decided to not risk it by starting my spin class, but didn't wan to just lay off completely after 2 days. My attempt at swimming failed miserably and I had to stop after a mere 3 mins coz the ankle felt awkward with each kick and I could feel so strain on the loose ankle. My shortest swim EVER. Didn't feel good. Guess I just have to rest for a couple more days. I hope I can be back in action by next Monday latest.

Pray hard.

Doc vs. Sinseh

And so I woke up in the middle of the night with some mild pain, so I decided to ice the ankle.

When I again woke up at 6am, I concluded that I'm injured. The ankle looked swollen and obviously I couldn't walk without limping.

So made the necessary smses and emails to inform The Boss and fellow colleagues about my absence at work.

First stop was to visit the GP to ensure there are no serious injuries (i'm quite worried about the cracking sound when I twisted the ankle), or whether I need an X-Ray. Doc made me do some simple tests like stand on my left foot (I can handle balance), tip-toe and also stand onboth feet (I find that difficult as I will tend to lean completely on my right). Since I was able to do the above without serious pain, the GP surmised that there shouldn't be any bone fractures. He recounted his own experience (which sounded similar to mine, just that he ended up with a minor surgery! *shiver*), advised me to rest and that i should feel better in the next few days, failing which, I will need to go for an X-Ray. He dispensed some painkillers and cream for the ankle and sent me home.

Next stop was to the sinseh. I actually do not have any trusted ones but decided to give the one at Chinatown another try since I was thinking of heading back to office after the visit. This clinic was run by a family with the entire family (parents and son) being sinsehs. I was treated by the mother in the last visit and I wasn't impressed at all. Her bandage was so shabby a colleague commented that it was so badly done she thought I bandaged it myself. -____-"

Today I was lucky, the mom was painting the grills and hence the father was the one who treated me. He compared both my feet, observed both legs and concluded that my left foot's bone alignment was out. Wah, sounded serious. He said that the mis-alignment had caused some issues up to my knee and all the way up to my waist and back. Due to that, I was over-compensating with my right leg and hence my right leg also need to be treated. I have to say the whole treatment took less than 5 mins, and it was only the last 10 secs that hurt the most. Thankfully my mom was around to keep me company.

I guess my mom was impressed enough to let him treat her ailments too. He fixed her left arm today, but said to me that my mom has too many issues and will take time to fix one at a time. Anyway, i will have to go back tomorrow to treat my right leg. Let's hope I'm feeling better tomorrow. In fact I can walk a bit better now ...

Wishing myself and my mom speedy recoveries!

AGAIN?!?!?!?!?!

Just as I'm happy about my run, and on my way home..... I had to slip from the last step of the stairs, fell down and sprained my left ankle. The SAME ankle which I'm still trying to recover from!!! ARGH!!!! When I fell I could hear the cracking sound of something in my ankle. #*$U#@($#@

I wasn't able to get up for a while, both from the pain and the shock.

The first thing that crossed my mind was "SHIT!!! Again?!?!?!?" and the next was "F**K! I was just about to get back to my running routine!!!!! Now this?!?!?!?!? I can't run again?!?!?!?!?!??!"

Am really really really frustrated. Can't express the irritation and frustration I am feeling right now. Think the pain is slowing building up .... sigh ....

Wondering whether I shld go see a GP now, or just sleep. I am so tired .... don't even have the energy to go ice my ankle. Wonder whether the salonpas plaster I put on, which has that icy cool feeling can be a good substitute ?

Damn. And now I'm down AGAIN. Pissed.

I Feel Good!

I finally managed to wake up early today for a run!!!!!!

For some reason I was really beat last nite and fell asleep real early, guess that's why I was able to wake up slightly earlier. I had some mild aching muscles which would have easily swayed my resolve to run, but thankfully the inability to snooze made me decide to hit the road.

Surprisingly the run today isn't bad. I was able to keep to a rather consistent pace and didn't feel winded like I have felt for the past couple of months whenever I run. I actually felt good. Tired, but good.

Finished the run (still shorter than the usual distances I covered) without much stopping like before. Though its still a good 4 - 5km shorter than before, but I'm happy for the run.

Think should be about 9km. Just hope I can keep up with this routine.

Jia you KJ!

Trying ... trying ....

I spent the last 2 weeks doing very short runs on the treadmill, just to get myself accustomed to running again. Sure running on treadmill is nothing like running on the road, but it beats not doing anything at all.

Got to work today, so I planned to do another run to office. In the past that was such an easy thing to do, but now I had to muster enough courage & determination just to get up and run that distance.

How I motivate myself to wake up to run? By adding one new song in my ipod, wanting that song to accompany me along the way. When I got down to stretching, I realised that song wasn't sync to my ipd! ()#*$(@* Had to rush back home to sync it.

After the super heavy downpour the evening before, the weather seemed to be still a bit cloudy. I overheard a couple telling an elderly couple that it seemed to be drizzling. I groaned internally and hoped the weather would hold for my run.

The same route, just cut short, and without all the added distance and loops (since I could hardly cover the shortest distance to ofc!). I was able to hold out slightly better than the last run to ofc, guess the treadmill runs.

As I got to Fullerton, I saw a mother-and-daughter pair with their race bibs, prolly walking to the starting of the GE run. So glad I was almost done with the run coz the sky was darkening by then.

Stopped at Lau Pa Sat for a 100+ rest as I was feeling really tired by then. Finished the run in about 1hr 10mins, covering at max 9km. My left ankle, which prolly still did not recover fully from the sprain, starting acting up after my run. Note to self, I really ought to go see another sinseh to have it fixed.

A long way to go to cover the distance I used to cover. sigh. Long road ahead. But I'll try, and keep on trying. Wish me luck!