I’ve been a bit frustrated lately. Things have definitely been up and down. A couple of weeks ago I was feeling really good after going jogging six times in the span of eight days (I was up to 1 mile jog/1 mile walk intervals without too much trouble), but then everything fell apart. I started my walk/jog a little late on a Thursday evening and it was getting pretty dark as I was in the home stretch. I was running along, listening to music on my iPhone, when I tripped on an uneven portion of the sidewalk. I didn’t fall down, but I stumbled and it took a few hard strides (and some pinwheeling arm moves that I’m sure looked pretty cartoonish) to catch myself. I was pretty shaken up, but I didn’t think there were any other ill effects. I even kept jogging until I completed my one-mile interval. Everything seemed fine when I went to bed that night, but that changed on Friday. My left knee (not the right one which hasn’t been the same since I was twelve and fell down during a ballet rehearsal) wasn’t feeling quite right during the day. I didn’t know if it was the jogging in general that bothered it or the spill I almost took, but I knew something was wrong. So I decided just to take a walk that evening and stretch everything out. Big mistake, I guess because that made my knee hurt much worse. It was pretty excruciating. Things went downhill from there. I could barely walk on Saturday morning. I spent the weekend on my couch, getting up as little as possible to give my knee a chance to heal. It was semi-successful. Unfortunately then I got hit with another setback. I drove over to a local deli to get a turkey sub for dinner on Sunday night and it did not agree with me. It came right back up. I’m pretty sure it was food poisoning of some kind, but I was worried that I had a stomach bug so I stayed home from work the next day just in case. So not only was my knee making me walk like an old woman, but my stomach was betraying me as well! I couldn’t win. Luckily my stomach started behaving again pretty quickly, but I was still limping a week later. Ugh. As soon as I decided that I absolutely had to see a doctor (last Tuesday) my knee finally decided to start getting better. It was like a light switch. I got up one morning and it hurt, but by the end of the day it was feeling almost normal again. I was thrilled! I still babied it for a few days, and it continued to improve. Thank goodness. I even went out walking/jogging tonight for the first time in over two weeks and I think it went well. I kept my jogging intervals to half a mile and my knee wasn’t bothering me at all. We’ll see if that’s still true in the morning. I’ve got my fingers crossed that these setbacks are finally behind me!