Well, after nearly two weeks, the verdict is in - Gene has a stress fracture or fractures in his hip. Most likely it is in the femoral neck (the bone above the femor, below the ball which fits into the hip socket).
On one hand it is a relief to at least know, especially since the pain has been getting worse and worse (since he began walking on it), and yet it is painful and worrisome, especially when well-meaning friends comment that this is the end of the running (which is not true from the research I have done).
Right now we are waiting to get an appointment with an orthopedic doctor, and Gene is back on crutches.
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"If we can't share our real feelings, we might as well be men!" - Joan Erikson
Woman must come of age by herself. She must find her true center alone. - Anne Morrow Lindberg
Nothing happens but first a dream. - Carl Sandburg
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; The last of his freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. - Victor Frankl
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2 comments:
Oh gosh, with Gene or you... ANY break is never the end to ANYthing.
Like I said before, keep your chin up. You guys planning to run the same marathon next year?
I think so. The current plan was to run the Pear Blossom 10 miler and the Eugene marathon in May. Then, one year from July Gene wants to run Badwater (135 miles over three days from Death Valley to the portal of Mt Whitney). In July!!!
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