Earthmovers and Sandcastles

So, going through everything I can find, I’m almost positive that I’ve got peroneal tendinitis. Last night I had Eric help massage my foot and ankle, and there it was: pain in my ankle, just above and behind the ankle bone. The tendon in question runs from there around the outside and underside of the foot, where my initial pain was and is. Thing is, even if I’m wrong?

PT: Rest, Ice, Compress, Elevate; if it gets worse, perhaps surgery.
Stress fracture: Rest, Ice, Compress, Elevate; if it gets worse, perhaps surgery.

Of course, the surgeries would be different, but from my end of things, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of difference in the meantime and barring that worst case. Once the pain is gone, there are stretches and exercises I can do to help if it’s PT, but I’m not there yet.

I have a call in to my primary care doctor, so that I can discuss the issue with her and see whether there’s anything I should do before my orthopedist appointment and whether it’s okay to wait so long in the first place. I expect that she’ll be asking me about my own comfort level - if I feel like I need to be examined now - and I hate being put on the spot like that. I’m no doctor; you tell me if I need a scan or whatever. Take it out of my hands! I can never tell if I’m over- or under-reacting to anything regarding my own health.

I just want to get to a hotel with a pool and exercise room, heavy on the pool. Cross-training never sounded so good. Except…the bulk of our vacation will be to the Dells, to one of those water park hotels, and for the life of me, I can’t tell from their website whether they have an actual pool. Water slides, treehouse with fountains, toddler splash zones, bridges and lazy rivers, sure. But do they have a place where I can actually swim? For maybe more than twenty feet in any one direction? Without getting plowed by a couple of ten-year-olds on an inner tube? I’ll have to call and speak to a real person, I guess; ordinary, run-of-the-mill swimming pools aren’t cool enough to warrant mention on a website for these places.

Going to be a fun trip, I hope. The kids are bouncing around madly in anticipation. I just hope the bouncing ebbs a bit for the driving portion of the vacation.

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