This Boot Was Made for Walking…

I’ve gotten a boot upgrade. Last Monday I had my mid-way check-up with my podiatrist to see how my stress fracture was healing. While the x-ray looked ok, I still have pain while walking. The doctor decided that I needed more stability, stating that I should have experienced a noticeable decrease in pain already. He wrote me a prescription for a walking air cast.

I feel like with it on, I can fight crime. It makes me feel robo-cop-ish from my left shin down. As I walk, acorns crush under the rolling plastic and I feel invincible against all nuts and crunchy items that occupy the floor. As I strap it on each morning and pump up the four air chambers I tell myself my (probably only amusing to me) story that this is a limited edition, classified Air Jordan Nike shoe. It’s so limited I could only get one. So secret it has no marks on it. Screw pumping up your shoe with just your shoe tongue. I’ve got a pump, valves and four gizmos to attend to. It’s awesome. Or something. I’m just trying to stay positive.
I’ve got two more weeks in this boot. Hopefully be then I’ll be pain free and able to walk on my merry way. That’s all I’ll be doing for a while: walking. My goal of running a 5k will have to be put on hold till I lose more weight. After two fractures I need to be really, really, really careful.

Besides my new hardware, there isn’t much else to report. After my 3.5 lb loss I got cocky? Stupid? Self-sabotaging? Fell prey to that time of the month and grad school finals stress? While I wasn’t hungry (thanks phendimetraz) the behavior of eating for comfort is still there. And I succumbed. I don’t want to whine or complain or lament too much on my week off track. Instead I’m just going to pick myself up, dust myself off, and try to do better this week.

Now I just have to figure out how I’m going to rock my air cast like Rihanna through the holiday party season.