SO TODAY I HURT MY RIGHT KNEE AND I'M TYPING IN CAPS LOCK BECAUSE I'M YELLING. THIS CANNOT BE REAL LIFE. IF THIS DOESN'T STOP HURTING TOMORROW MORNING I'M GOING TO BEAT MY KNEE TILL AN INCH OF IT'S LIFE. GRRR.
So if those in the blogocyberspace wants to know what happened, well I don't exactly know. But I will tell you what I did on this day.
Workout (pre kung fu) found I couldn't do pull ups because the tendons in my elbow/forearms were on fire. I'm not kidding. It felt like I had burning thermite in my arms when I tried to do a pull up.
So 3x5 Squats, 185#
and 3x5 Bench press
and 1x5 Deadlift 255#
Then I went to the beginner class at kung fu. Which went well, until we did jumping jacks in the warm up, when my right knee started pinging me in the pain centre of my brain. not really pain full, but just a ping. Horse stances hurt. power of the instep hurt more. and I ignored it all thinking it was just whatever. I don't know what I thought it was, but I didn't think about it.
Then I practiced a lot of left lead projection stepping jab - reverse.
Somehow I got an idea to try jab-projection step-reverse times two, followed by, jab-slidestep into horse stance- vertical punch.
Did that a few times. and then I caught my foot on the mat and stopped and leaned on my knee really hard. and it seemed fine. Then I ran around and couldn't. I hobbled.
Went to get tensor bandage and icy hot patches to put on my knee. Fraser happened to have advil in his bag, so he gave me some.
And convinced me that I was in no shape to be in the intermediate class given that my knee has already started swelling. I listened. And a half hour later started considering that I could push through it. Until 2 senior students again reinforced that I shouldn't.
So I sat on the side ( this is progress, as I did not do this last time.) As I sat my knee got steadily more painful, and so I left while I could still drive home.
That didn't work. I had to take a break every 10 minutes of driving. and braking with my left foot. lucky it's an automatic.
Anyway, now I'm home, and my knee is the size of 2 normal knees. And I plan on getting it looked at in the next week. Not a month.
Took more pain killers. Icing and elevating knee. Can't compress, hurts like your first heartbreak if I try.
I guess this is progress.
GAH.
EDIT:
So the doc said most likely I strained the tendon from my knee cap to my shin bone. He used bigger words though. Now I have a splint for a week. and he said if that doesn't fix it, then I should book an MRI. well, let's hope in a week I'll be back to kicking and screaming.
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