Over the past few months I have been super productive and very active. I have had great pregnancy energy and I really had no complaints up until this week. That brings me to my “new accessory” the walking boot.
Last Friday I had gone hiking and ever since then I had some pain in the top of my foot. It hurt when I was active and when I wasn’t it didn’t bother me as much. As the week went on it was bothering me more and I noticed it the most when walking bare foot around the house or just walking in general. At night I had some throbbing and pain so I decided I should be safe and get it checked out. I went to the orthopedic and they determined it is either a ligament strain or a stress fracture in one of my metatarsals. He refused to do an X-ray because I am pregnant and said it doesn’t matter if it’s a ligament strain or stress fracture the walking boot is the treatment either way.
I left feeling a little bummed and frustrated because everything was going so smoothly up until this point. The Dr did say that at this point in my pregnancy the hormones can really cause the ligaments and joints to loosen. He said that with my active job and the hormones relaxing my ligaments this probably caused part of the injury.
Cooper was bummed too but he let me kick up my feet to ice and napped next to me!
On a positive note, the boot makes my foot feel better because it doesn’t allow my toes to bend and keeps my foot straight. I am going to look at the boot as my healing tool!! I am confident that I will be better in no time.
can’t see the boot in this picture but you can see my rounder belly
the boot & belly
Have you ever had an injury to the lower body? What creative workouts did you do?
