My First Sports Injury

In July, I took up exercising as a serious sport. I have been going to the gym six days a week for three months now. In August, I worked out with my friend Sheila. She was doing wind sprints on the treadmill next to me. Wind sprints!! I was in AWE of what she was doing. She is a machine!! We talked (yes... she could carry on a CONVERSATION doing wind sprints!) and next thing you know, we were on the treadmill over an hour. When I stepped off the machine, my heel felt like I had bruised it. I felt something POP.

After talking with many people, I deduced that I tore the fascia tendon in my right foot. I did the stretches, iced it down nightly, and got off the treadmill and onto a bike. I cycle 15 miles a day, six days a week. I'm down 30lb and I feel really good. I even got a night splint. See?

A teacher friend had two surgeries on her feet, cutting the fascia because her fasciitis was so bad. She recommended her doctor to me, and off I went to make the appointment. A month later, I got in to see him. Turns out he's in pretty high demand as the sports medicine doctor for all the U.L. atheletes. He x-rayed my foot, and yeah, I have plantars fasciitis.

But I ALSO have a stress fracture in the bone. Look what he's making me wear:

This storm-trooper get up is snazzy, eh? I have to wear it for four weeks. It's called an Air Cast, and it comes with a gadget that fills the sides with air to tighten the cast around my foot. I can only take it off to drive and to sleep. I guess tennis is out of the question??