June Update: TGP, Pride 5K, PT and hip

I'm still here. Just updated my training peaks and pieced it together from the garmin connect info. Stuff I used to update every day, not 2-3 times a month.

In the past few weeks:
Week of June 12: 82.5 miles bike
Week of June 19: 66.3 miles bike
Week of June 26: only 33 miles so far. It's Tuesday, I have time :)

I'm doing a Monday morning 6am TGP ride with IT, BE, and sometimes JA. LOVE seeing a group, love the park, the perfect weather we've been having, the new pavement and speed humps in the center drive. I missed the 19th from feeling sick over the weekend (GI issues) but otherwise this is a thing. IT is training for IMWI! Yesterday was almost cold, others showed up with arm warmers!

Pride 5K was this past Sunday, it's done and off my list. It went great! I managed to get some extra bike miles going to MG's and Cafe V for meetings, rode to packet pickup, etc. I miss running.

Two weeks ago I had an appt with WashU orthopedics (don't think this made it into the last udpate). Dr Hunt showed me the labral tear on MRI (so tiny) and identified 'tenderness' in the psoas. As Dr L indicated my next step is the diagnostic injection of a numbing agent into the inner hip joint to confirm that is the source of my pain. That happens tomorrow! I'm researching and data collecting as much as I can to make sure this test does not end with an ambiguous result. I'm mentally listing what hurts, where, how much. So updates on that soon. Dr L said today that I should know right away if the numbing agent blocks the labral tear pain.

I see Dr L every two weeks, he's happy with my progress and is focused on my lower back. Thinks I might need more imaging to see about a lumbar injury. I see LaurenH every Weds and Fri, her goal the last two weeks is to get me to the injection. So I'm not advancing in the PT exercises. She adds one most visits, but nothing too advanced yet. I'm stalled on the Clams and Side Steps -- they hurt the hip the most. I am 100% on doing PT exercises every day, I might not hit every single one (sometimes skip ones I don't have the tool for, like a swivel stool or yoga ball). I'm doing everything I can so that I know that I did all that I can do for this.

Sleep seems to be the most painful, but even just sitting here hurts too. Some days are worse than others, some I sleep terribly and others not much of a problem. Walking the dog slowly really hurts too.

Oh the dog! Since my last update she has sloooooowly improved. Still not going up/down stairs, still not walking much, sometimes breaking into a jog early in the walk but it breaks down into a slow mosey by the end. Last few days she's sleeping on first floor, but is more playful and perky. If measured every 3-4 days, you'll see improvement. If measured day by day, too small to mark.