As I said in the last post, I finished the marathon and got a nice wheelchair ride to the DFMC hotel. While I was hoping that the injury was tendonitis or a bad muscle strain, I was not so lucky. After 2 weeks of using crutches, I was finally able to see an orthopedic. After hearing my story, he immediately said 'stress fracture' and sent me for a MRI. I had the MRI on a Saturday and unfortunately the stress fracture was confirmed. It's in the femoral neck and though it sounds bad, it could have been much much worse (full fracture, disruption of blood supply and hip replacement!).
So what's on tap for me now...I've been on crutches since April 20th and get to keep practicing on them until June 1, my next appointment. No weight-bearing on the right leg until June and only if I'm pain free at that point. Swimming, nope. Biking, nope. Stretching or yoga, nope and nope. No activity until at least June 1 and I'm pain free. There's been plenty of improvement and I'm not feeling any pain right now but I am also heeding the doc's advice and not putting weight on it or testing it. Hoping that June 1 is the last day of crutches and until then, I'll continue to, well, do nothing.
