Why did no one tell me that you can’t do this stuff at 39? Why? Whhhyyyyyyy? :smack:
I went to a picnic/barbecue with a bunch of people from the neighborhood, a kind of “farewell to summer” thing. Well as it turns out it was also farewell to walking normally for me for a while.
We played baseball and I had runners on 2nd and 3rd when I had a base hit! As I sailed to first, my left foot hit a depression in the ground or something, I felt a “pop” and a searing pain shot through the back of my leg.
Sigh, so I’m hobbling around on a cane and icing it appropriately and off to the doc tomorrow to see how bad it is.
Ouch. My condolences go out to you. That can’t be pleasant. Here’s to the dull feeling you get after applying ice for a long time.
How bad is it? Is the muscle pretty much a big ball where your calf should be?
It’s a little better this morning but if I step a certain way forget it. It’s like I could feel the twisting inside :eek: .
I am going to go to the doc to try and get some crutches because I really can’t put my full weight on it. And I need a note for work too. I hate this.
Did that about 10 years ago, on the diving board at the local YMCA. I had to have help getting out of the pool; it took about 2 weeks to quit hurting, and about 2 months for the muscle to heal completely. I had a nice cleft where it tore.
Unfortunately, there’s not a lot that can be done for them except not using the affected muscle until it heals. The doctors won’t open you up and sew it back together.
Did the same thing several years ago. A group of professors formed a soccer team to play in a little tournament our university was having. We did pretty well–we even beat the JV team!–but by the third game we were dropping like flies from injuries. 5 minutes in, I swear to God I heard a sound like a gorilla tearing a steak in half and next thing you know, I’m on the ground. I couldn’t play again for months.
I pulled my hammy in February of 2006. My rugby team went to England about six weeks later, in March of 2006. They elected me captain of the entire touring side, which included students and alumni. I had been very careful with it for the past six or seven weeks, to make sure I’d be able to play in England. Well, in the first ten minutes, I was running to a break down, and my boot slipped on the soggy, spongy English pitch. I instinctively started curling my leg to regain my balance, and ripped my hammy again. I didn’t even get to scrum down once in England.
Yes and I actually even made it to first too. I hobbled but I made it and then I gave in to the pain and sank to the ground.
I’m out of work for the week which is ok but I will hate not being able to go to the gym or run. That is not ok. I have hand weights I can do at home along with abs. Sigh.
and I actually even made it to first too. I hobbled but I made it and then I gave in to the pain and sank to the ground.