My Leg

Since December, my leg has really been bothering me. One day at work, after seeing me drag my left leg around like a tranquilized duck, a customer (completely out of nowhere) diagnoses me with a pinched sciattica. Not being the ignorant child that most people think I am, I knew how to pronounce the word (hahaha). The sciattica is a nerve that runs down both sides of your back down to your toes. If pinched or inflamed, the most miniscule physical action results in severe physical pain (tell me about it). So I go to work fine, come home with a pinched nerve and no worker's comp. Shweet.

At first, I was afraid to tell my couch. I did not want to be thought of as whining or as injury prone so until it was a serious detriment to my walking (there's no way in hell I can run on this thing), I kept to myself. Until I realized I couldn't even bend far enough to touch my shins. At this point, I nervously told my coach what I was feeling. His reaction was surprising because he seemed more worried than I was. He made numerous appointments for another teammate and I to head to the team chiropractor. For several weeks now, Damien Brown and I have been getting treated for injuries at Perfect Competition 2-3 times per week. This doctor had a different diagnosis than the woman from my job (he thinks I tore my hamstring off of my glute muscle..)As part of my treatment, I receive electrical stimulation on my leg (haha, that part is fun) and this frictional massage treatment on the same areas (haha, that part is not fun). I have been feeling 100%, totally, and completely...the same. I guess ice is my new best friend for now. I need to be healthy ASAP. This really isn't funny, my whole season could be ruined over something I hurt in 2008