WORST LUCK!!!

I was soooo excited today, because it's my first day back to tennis! I couldn't sleep all night, and couldn't wait to get out of bed. I was so happy to be back at the club with all my friends, and everyone was happy to have me back.

Start out playing, and while I'm definitely rusty, it's coming along, and we're having fun. About an hour into the team clinic, I hear this "pop" and feel something in my calf "detach" for lack of better words. I don't know if I "heard" the pop, or if my brain imagined it with the feeling, but either way, as soon as I tried to walk on it - it was obviously hurt.

@$%*&*!@%$^&*($%^%!!!!!! Such a BUMMER!!!

LUCKILY I think it's not "that bad" and we'll see in a few days exactly how bad it is. I've had it looked at by my chiropractor, cure all doctor and things are DEFINITELY not the worst case scenario. So R.I.C.E. (rest, ice, compressions & elevation) is the name of my life for the next two days.

I did a little googling and found this fantastic article. It seems to be EXACTLY what happened, and I plan to follow these instructions to a "T". Hopefully I'll be back on the court in "no time".

*sigh*

Good thing little lady bought CRUTCHES at the garage sales the other week. Perfect timing!


http://www.itftennis.com/shared/medialibrary/pdf/original/IO_2705_original.PDF (in case the link doesn't work...you can look it up yourself ;-)