Whee!
In about six hours I shall be waking up and getting ready to head to Nan Desu Kan 2006 with the DU anime club, my first convention! I hope I remember to take my camera and sufficient disks for photos (my camera is an old one from Dad's work, and it stores photos on a floppy). If anyone's going tomorrow, watch for a Japanese girl with a Ragnarok Online tee, probably hobbling around on crutches! Speaking of....
So, my left heel's been hurting since last week. It got bad after I walked, rested, and tried to walk again; couple of nights ago, I wasn't even standing up when I felt sharp pain in my heel. Long story short, today I go to the Health Center and find out I have Bursitis. Basically, the body produces a bursa (plural bursae) to cushion places where the tendons/muscles and bones' movement go against each other, as in joints. Using the joints too much or impacting them in a way to injure yourself can result in bursitis, where the liquidy cushion gets inflammed and swollen, and there is friction between the bones/muscles and this burmae, and that is the cause of the pain. I thought it was just a pulled muscle, but it felt a little different. The doctor gave me a nice concise description of this, and gives me medication to help reduce the swelling. He says it could take about 3 weeks to go away assuming I still walk on it but don't use it much, but if I had crutches to walk around with, it could take about a week.
So, my left heel's been hurting since last week. It got bad after I walked, rested, and tried to walk again; couple of nights ago, I wasn't even standing up when I felt sharp pain in my heel. Long story short, today I go to the Health Center and find out I have Bursitis. Basically, the body produces a bursa (plural bursae) to cushion places where the tendons/muscles and bones' movement go against each other, as in joints. Using the joints too much or impacting them in a way to injure yourself can result in bursitis, where the liquidy cushion gets inflammed and swollen, and there is friction between the bones/muscles and this burmae, and that is the cause of the pain. I thought it was just a pulled muscle, but it felt a little different. The doctor gave me a nice concise description of this, and gives me medication to help reduce the swelling. He says it could take about 3 weeks to go away assuming I still walk on it but don't use it much, but if I had crutches to walk around with, it could take about a week.