No training week summary

Thursday BIKE indoors 60 mins

That's it :(

Let's start at the bottom. My left foot is now always hurting when I walk. But I can press, touch, squeeze my foot and not a problem. The pain moves? I thought it was 2nd or 3rd toe, now I think 4th? The discomfort spreads to my big toe and sometimes my ankle when I'm walking which means I'm limping.

My bruised hip from the fall with the dog is just bruised and it hurts to touch it. But thankfully not any other apparent damage to my repaired hip.

The lump on the IT band area above my right knee seems to be smaller? The bruise is healed up and the it's certainly less painful.

My rib however, ooooh ouch, and using my left arm for things like doors and picking things up -- no bueno. I still don't think it's broken, I just think it's banged up. On top of that, my mid back is suffering this too. Whether I'm compensating, not moving enough, stiffening up wrong, or the back has it's own type of fall-related damage - I dunno. But wearing a coat or a backpack (and hoo boy the combo of the two) is super uncomfy.

So no run for foot. Not much bike for foot (hurts there too). And no swim for rib.

So didn't do much this week training-wise. But I did have a few med appts!

First up Weds with the nutritionist. My initial thought was to not mention the vomiting and gut symptoms of D and C, but I figured I might as well get the help from this I can. This visit went much better, whether I was more open or seemed less rigid, or what I don't know. But it was the same theme with goals and concerns. I need to be sure I'm getting enough calcium and iron. I need to vary my food choices (and the variety I have is a great start). And I need to get the gut symptoms under control or she recommends a GI consult. Ugh. No. Will fix. Goals before the next follow up are to have at least one meal a day of non-pureed or juiced foods (I'm on a baby food/juiced/puree streak) and to increase the amount of fat (some of the vegan heart healthy recipes omit fat, so I been omitting it too without really meaning too).

Then today (Friday) Dr B - this went great! No concerns it seems, as long as I don't have any. I can try stopping the Amlodipine (was added on empirically after the October incident for suspected artery spasms). I can keep training as long as my symptoms don't recur. And my biggest concern in the end is in fact the 10-30% (depending on the study) possibility I have of a SCAD recurrence. My BP was low, HR low, LDL low, but excitement HIGH!

Happy Valentines Day Bee!  Last night Sugar got a big bag of Beggin Strips. And me?  LOL :X