Stretch it or you'll wreck it.

I think I really fucked up something in my right hip flexor. Over the weekend it was just the outside of my hip hurting - I couldn't really localize it other than that, but I knew the area in general didn't feel up to snuff. Today I knew exactly what the problem was because I've experienced it before.

At one point or another I did serious damage to both sides during high school cheerleading. Between that, the falling arches, and shin splints, I always seemed to be in some sort of excruciating pain. This isn't really an injury you can wrap and tape and suffer through. It's like breaking a toe. No doctor is going to put a cast on your pinky toe, right? They're just going to give you a foot splint and tell you to tread lightly. In this case, you wear flats and try not to put pressure on that side for a few days...hard to do when your rolling desk chair is on carpet and you have to shuttle back and forth to the file cabinet.

[aside: the cat is sitting next to my chair and staring up at me. She's been in this stance for five minutes. Does she want to eat me?]

I'm trying to figure out when I strained it...I think it may be when we were on Bald Head on bikes and my seat was too high. The Sudafed high I've been on for the past couple of days have distracted me from HOW FUCKING PAINFUL it is. The pain is shooting down my leg in little ripples. How cute.

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