Listen to Lena

Perfecting the Art of Conversuasion

Breakfast in Bed. Blogging in Bed.

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Everything in bed. Oh. My. God.

It all happened last Thursday when I – a good girl, minding my own business – was sitting at the dining room table with my feet propped up on another chair. While leafing through a magazine, suddenly, the phone rang. I leaped up to grab it, and immediately started to hobble; damn, I must have stood up wrong or something. Ignoring the pain in my right heel, I limped around and finished my phone call, convinced I just needed to walk it out.

The day went on as usual, with me favouring one foot as I went about my life. The next morning, I awoke bright and early to tackle the day.

“Huh,” I thought as I climbed out of bed. “My heel still hurts.”

By mid-morning, the entire ankle area had started to swell. Yikes! I had no recollection of spraining my ankle, or twisting it in an ungodly way; just back-of-the-foot pain as I walked around. I decided to ice, elevate and ignore.

Until the next morning (Saturday), when I noticed that my second toe had flared up too. WHAT. THE. HELL. Erring on the side of caution, I booted it to the walk-in clinic, where the doctor diagnosed a pulled Achilles tendon – also known as acute tendinitis.

(As I type this, I’m stretching my leg back and forth to keep the tendon loose.)

He told me to ice it, elevate it, and take Advil every 8 hours to bring down the swelling. I could deal! I know tendon injuries take a while to heal, and thank goodness my line of work allows me to stay off my feet if I need to. I walked limped away feeling fine about the prognosis.

Except that on Sunday, my left, non-injured foot, had started to hurt. And when I say hurt, I’m talking about 8/10 on the “Holy Hannah” scale of pain. I immediately shrugged it off as pain from transferring all my weight over to the foot for the last three days while I hobbled around. But by Monday morning, when the top of my left foot started to swell, I started to panic. Maybe panic is a strong word. But I did have several WTF moments.

Tuesday morning, bright and early at my doctor’s office. She sent me next door for X-Rays (very handy) and prescribed a potent NSAID for pain and inflammation. She didn’t really have a good guess as to why I had swelling and pain in my left foot – or my right, for that matter, given my very sexy explanation of being injured by “simply standing up, I swear.”

Alas, here I am. Both feet propped up in an attempt to heal the soreness in my left foot from stress, and my right foot from a pulled tendon. Typing on my laptop in a very awkward fashion. Wishing I had never jumped up to get the phone. I can’t even remember who called.

And so, posts this week may be *slightly* staggered as I catch up on some must-see TV and a few good books I’ve been meaning to read. Pray for me, friends.

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  1. nicolthepickle

    Oh my, that cracked me up, about your husband, not the ankle.

    Have a nice relaxing day, and I hope you feel better soon.

  2. Tricha

    Oh no, you poor thing. Relax and keep off your feet which I am sure is hard with two young ones. And Mike, leave Lena alone if you know what I mean. Men!! Oh, unless you want to Lena. Lol!

  3. Darlene Schuller

    ouch!!! I can’t even begin to imagine! I hope your tests results show something, that is very odd.. as far as the hubster.. watch out now girl!! lol!

  4. Allie

    Get well soon Lena.
    I know how you feel I was running for the phone a few summers ago and tripped up and fell breaking my fall with my hands I had frozen shoulder and torn tendons for two years!!
    I NO LONGER RUN FOR THE PHONE!!
    Enjoy your time off to get better stay warm….

  5. Judy C (Judy Cowan)

    Ouch!!! That does not sound like fun at all, hopefully a few days of TLC will help. Mind you it sounds like hubby has other plans for you…lol

  6. Flora M

    Oh no ! You poor thing ! Just hate it when anything happens to my feet/ankles/knees/legs – really puts a damper on everything ! Keep those feet up and hope you heal fast !

  11. Ella Pretty Blog

    Oh no – poor thing!!! Hope you feel better soon! Shall I reschedule our coffee date?

    How strange that both feet are affected – hope you get lots of rest and watch lots of fun shows :-)

  15. Flora M

    I hope today finds your feet feeling better ;) Don’t overdo when they start feeling better though – it is so easy to re-injure them at that point (been there done that).

  17. Lynda Cook

    I understand your pain, I have a heel spur and have gone for two injections already and it they hurt like hell, Hope your foot feels better soon , and that also made me laugh about your husband…men….lol

  20. Flora M

    Here’s hoping you are well on the mend by now – have definitely missed reading your posts these past few days…. :(