Solving the riddle

Well if there's one thing that makes my knee feel somewhat better, it's definitely swimming in the pool. So I'm making that a Mon-Wed-Fri deal for the near future. I was talking to somebody about my injury the other day and was explaining to them how I've been trying everything in the book, but nothing has seemed to get me over the top and past this injury. I likened it to a riddle and I'm trying to find clues to solve it. Or it's also like those hard-as-hell Sudoku puzzles that you just get so frustrated with and wanna throw the book at somebody...but there's something inside of you that KNOWS there's a logical way to solve it so you just keep plugging away at it.

Ok well maybe that was a stretch...but you get the gist of it. While I was working on Saturday, I felt like I found another little clue. One of the PTs at the clinic I went to for physical therapy came in and he was wondering how I was doing, since the last time he saw me was at the clinic. I gave him the rundown and he was sympathetic that I'm not running Boston, but I told him the current information about how it's feeling now...

I don't think I've said too much about it in recent posts, but I get some pain on the lateral condyle of my right tibia every now and then...which makes sense because that's where the IT Band inserts. I also get pain on my fibular head too, but that pales in comparison to the tibia, and sometimes I feel like I have pain on the tendon of my biceps femoris (lateral hamstring...which inserts on the fibular head). So there's pain in those two places...I also get this feeling of weakness/tightness all the time in the area proximal and lateral to the lateral condyle of the tibia. So on my right leg, it's up and to the outside...in case some of you don't know anatomical terminology. Also, during times when my knee is flexed (such as when I sit for a while or when I curl up when I sleep), I can start to feel my pulse in that area. I know that it is part of the imflammatory response...but honestly, what is it still repairing??

If anybody has any insight to any of that, let me know. Anyway, I told Chris (the PT) all of that and he wondered if I had sprained my ankle recently. I said no, but he said that may have screwed up the alignment of my fibula if that was the case. We discussed it a little bit more, but eventually he had to go and he told me to go back to the injury clinic this Wednesday and talk to the one PT I talked to last week. He told me to ask her about "fibular head mobilizations"....so I guess I'll soon figure out what those are. So hopefully I'll have some good news after Wednesday.

All in all, I feel like my patience has been tested, BIG time. And I just gotta keep on keeping on, so to speak. This past Thursday marked 5 months since the injury occured, so part of me is getting really frustrated. Especially when I see people running outside because it's getting warmer, and friends ask me if I wanna go running with them, not realizing that I'm still on the injured list. Patience...

"Something tells me that this is going to make sense,
Something tells me it's going to take patience,
Something tells me that this will all work out in the end."
--"The One I'm Waiting For" by Relient K