10/21
Day started out not hot. Saturday I had some cortisone shots in my back to calm some of the inflammation down. Everything seemed fine. I laid off another couple days to let it do its work. Went to bed feeling okay but not great mentally from another bout of stress during the week. Woke up and got up as usual. Having to brace up as usual to get out of bed with the ongoing nerve issue in my back. It was earlier then usual so I thought let me lay down for another minute or two. Normally, i pick my knee up , putit on the bed and pull myself up. It is a king size bed so it is higher then normal and I go to do it and my knee stalls right at parallel. I need a bit more but it ain't responding. I finally get it on there but my anxiety ramps up and I decide to go to work and narco nap in the truck. First things going through my mind are:
Should I get the wife up and go to the emergency room 'cause this ain't right?
Am I going to make it to work?
Lots of other crazy shit rolls off. I hate the thought of being a burden on anyone. So off to work I go. It is about 20 minutes earlier then usual so I get almost a hour nap in the truck before I go in. I did not think I would nap at all. I get out of the truck and hit the ground wondering if I will buckle or not with the leg weakness. I feel better and so do my legs. I take my stuff to the back door as I take a 10 min walk before the gym opening time. The dumpster area is behind the gym and on Sunday night the dumpster gets emptied. The guy is lazy and never closes the door after he picks up so I drop the bag off at the door and head to the dumpster. I didn't think about it at all and step off the curb. Nothing is there and my leg buckles and I am on the ground. My first thought is am i getting up or am i going to call the ambulance as it is 535 in the morning. I roll up and and manage to get to my feet okay. Legs feel ok except the hole below my knee cap. I close the GD doors to the dumpster and think," Can I make it around for my 10 min?" Well maybe it will get the blood moving and my legs working again. I manage it with tight stiff steps all the way around.
I get in and let the cats out of there 3 story crate and think am I getting up if I lean over to feed them. I manage this too and make it out for the rest of opening duties. I do some activations to see if that helps. It helps considerably so I tenatively do some upperbody work. Just lots of machine pressing and pulling. I nervously keep checking things and between the upper work and this I pass the time long enough to text the Doc. He says the numbness passes in a hour after the shots. He thinks maybe a disc so just keeping a eye on it. I am scheduled to go to the ortho next week already before this happened. Heading to the chiro again this morning to keep it moving.
I remember along time ago when I was messing with my little brother. We were playing on a roof at the high school next to our house. I decided to start throwing rocks at him because i thought I was more accurate then them him. He was not a sports kid and if you watched you would think he didn't know how his arm worked. Well we get to tossin' stones and I whizz a few past him. He is nowhere near me and I dive behind a short wall. i pop up and see him launch one and before i know what has happened, he konks me on thehead and I am knocked out for a second as all the big kids on the football field laugh. Pretty much like a Friday line,"He got knocked the F#%k out!" I still have some of the knot to this day. I never really got in a rock tossin' contest with him again. No moral to this story except that is how I felt when I hit the ground this morning. It is funny and always worth a retell.
Just remember how much we take our bodies for granted and that they will always work. I laid in bed the other night and thought about how I hit the ground pretty much instantly. I landed on the hard pointed part at the top of the tibia. When i was 20 I put down flooring. It was a tough job and that pointed spot grew alot compared to most people as a reaction to being on my knees all the time. It is very dense. I landed right on that. Imagine if I had hit higher or lower. Would have probably broken the cap or tibia. Lucky yes, but hard work and building up your body is also a nice insurance policy when things go wrong. And don't worry, they are going to eventually.
2 10 min walks of death
10/20
Activations post walking and helping dudes
About a hour of walking. Second day after getting in the zone with some cortisone shots. Doc said hold off training for a couple of days. Felt pretty good considering the stress levels from all the events and back troubles.
10/19
Walked about 30 pre guy's training
Went to Doc on Saturday morning to get some cortisone shots to speed up recovery. He recommended not training for a couple days so just helped the dudes finish up squatting.
10/17
3 10 min walk
Activatons
10/16
Activations with 10 min BT on guts
Leg press 4x50
Reverse hypers BW 4x8
10 mins of stairs, 1 20 min walk
10/15
4 10 min walks
Activations
Bnad stretching
10/14
Activations
3 10 min walks
Light upper machine work with about 10 sets each
Chest Press, Seated rows, pulldowns and pushdown
Lots of band leg movements lying down
10/13
Activations
2 10 mins walks
Good bit of lying leg movements with band
10/12
1 20 min walk
Activations
Lots of band leg movement lying down.
