Stuck in a ride before my injection

I had one last chance to enjoy a sixty minute ride during our sunshine break before my injections (which were scheduled for 12:30) yesterday morning. Today I want to keep my activities “simple and effortless” so am taking a day off from riding. Then this weekend will see more rain.

The injections went well. I had enough anesthesia to be unaware of being trapped. It was weird when they first picked me up because my right leg was a little crooked for a few hours. I’m glad my wife was there to take me home. I had to be off my feet for the rest of the day, so I have to thank her for some missed work for the next few days. Today I’m in “normal non-strenuous” mode, so I’ll try to stand and walk a little more. The purpose of the injection is to be able to run for a long time, so I’ll be testing it slowly over the next few days. Discharge’s instructions warned that it could take up to 10 days to get complete relief. Then I follow up with the pain doctor on April 4th.

The discharge instructions listed my wife out as “normal and non-strenuous.” she reminded me “they mean ‘normal’ to a normal person, no You”. This reminds me of a funny thing I forgot to mention in my previous post that my pain doctor (who is a really nice guy) said. I told him my history of how much I exercise, and how I’ve had two injuries in my right leg over the past two years from two separate bouts of over-exercising. I was surprised at how quickly he shaped me. He described my diagnosis after the injection and said that this was a good chance that my problem would go away forever. Then he added, “Unless you decide to start surfboarding a year from now”.