This post is part of my ongoing “Get Fit” series, an effort to lose a little weight/tone up, and save money by reducing the number of meals I eat out.
The photo to the left was taken last Tuesday (3-16-10) night after receiving a shot Dilaudid at Urgent Care, the result of an inline speed skating crash earlier in the evening. I don’t recall the photo being taken or anything else that happened after around 9 pm that night. If you missed it, here’s a quick video I shot last week Wednesday describing my crash and the resulting back pain.
Since then I’ve gone to the hospital (last Friday) to get further x-rays, which showed bruising of the bone and severely pulled muscles in my back. My ability to walk and stand up/sit down has improved, but unfortunately the back pain is still there. In addition, for some reason there’s a slight pain down my right thigh and groin area… I’ve got no clue what that’s all about.
I went to inline speed skating practice last night to roll around on my skates and see how things felt, but unfortunately I only skated around 10 laps before conceding to the fact that it hurt too much. You might be thinking, “Give it a rest,” but the thing is, I’m supposed to skate a competition Easter weekend.
At the event I’m scheduled to skate my division races, which I could easily bow out of, but I’m also supposed to skate five relay events. In regards to the relays, if I don’t skate it pretty much messes up the relay teams and other folks will have to sit out as well. At this point, only time will tell if I lace up my skates and compete next weekend.
I can only hope that a little more time will allow the pain to go away and things will go as planned next weekend, but if I can’t skate (yet) I can’t skate… and I’ve accepted that.
One thing is for sure, since this has happened I’ve thought about being paralyzed more times than I’d like to admit. I’ve never fallen while skating and not gotten up. More so, I’ve never fallen in such a way that my first thought was, “Make sure you can move your legs.” It was scary and something I hope to never experience again.
