Crutches... no thank you.

Ever since I got back to school my leg has been hurting. It felt like I pulled a muscle or something. It didn't "hurt" yesterday, it was more like just annoying when I forgot about it and put a bunch of weight on it.

This morning was a different story. I got out of bed and nearly fell over because my entire leg hurt. It was the first morning of classes though and I was meeting a friend to walk together, so I didn't have many options except to take ibprofin and deal with it. Throughout the day it got better, it still hurt, but it was bearable again.

I tried to go to practice tonight thinking the saying I've heard growing up, "Oh just swim it off" would work. Wrong. I literally pulled the entire swim-set (when you have been out of the pool for 6 weeks, that's rough), and then one legged egg-beatered until I burst into tears. I'm not one who cries when I'm hurt and typically have a pretty high pain tolerance, and so I knew something was up. Michele, our polo captain/coach/whatever you wanna call her told me to just get out and go see the trainer because something wasn't right.

Turns out I didn't pull a muscle in my leg. I pulled a muscle/ligament/tendon/something around my hip which caused that to swell and made my entire leg hurt. Yippee!

The remedy? Ice/heat, ibprofin, and "taking it easy". Oh yeah, and he highly suggested crutches... WHAT? Okay, I can barely walk on my own two feet half the time... crutches was not going to be an option. I called my parents and we agreed that I would just try to take it easy and keep it moving but not overdo it this week and see where that goes.... perfect!!

Not exactly the first day that I was hoping for, but hey, one thing I have learned is God ALWAYS has a plan and His plan is way better than mine. So if His plan includes taking me twice as long to get to a class, well then I guess I'm just going to be learning something about Him in that extra time! God knows what He is doing, I'm not worried!!