Bye Bye Bucky

[przed]

Last night was the Badger's Sweet Sixteen game against Notre Dame's Fighting Irish. It was a tight game, and the Badgers gave a great effort, but they fell apart a bit in the last few minutes. So, it's goodbye to Bucky Badger for another year. (Fortunately, it'll be hello to that other Bucky when Civil War opens in May. *g*)

In other news, after making a full recovery from the shoulder injury, I seem to have really buggered up my left knee. I did my usual three classes this week with no more than the usual knee issues, but yesterday when I woke up my knee felt a bit glitchy. Then we got in the car to make the three hour drive up to my mom's for the weekend, and by the time we arrived I could barely put any weight on my left leg.

Poking around on the internet and based on where the pain it, right below the kneecap, it seems likely that the knee pain I've had for ages has been "jumper's knee," and that I've finally done the tendon some serious damage. And thinking about the week, I suspect it happened when we were practice flying sidekicks ahead of breaking boards this Friday.

I'm hoping I can get this under control really soon. Because I'm supposed to be doing my last pre-black belt grading this Friday, and the final, weekend-long black belt test in six weeks.

Zoiks!

Comments

[jawanderer.livejournal.com]

Ouch ouch ouch! Knee pain is the pits! Ice and rest and take care!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Knees are the worst. The icing got the worst of it at least. Now there will be the dance of figuring out how much training I can do without blowing out my tendon totally. :(

[jawanderer.livejournal.com]

Quite the balancing act. Glad icing it helped, and I wish you luck with babying it through the test!

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Hello! Glad to see you up and about but darn, girl, take care!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Icing has nuked the worst of the pain. I can walk again! But now I have to figure out how much I can do to get my black belt without blowing my knee out entirely. So much fun!

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

Ouch! *hugs gently* How frustrating, so close to the final tests. Do take care of it *hugs moar*

[przed.livejournal.com]

Very frustrating. It's down to a delicate balance between doing enough to keep my conditioning up, and resting the knees enough that I don't blow them completely.

I just found out that one of my TKD friends blew his ACL five weeks before one of his black belt tests. (He's going for his 4th degree this time 'round.) I'm hoping to avoid that kind of serious damage.

On the positive side, I've got another TKD friend with dodgy knees who's doing her second degree this time, so we're going to be walking buddies when all the other crazy people are doing a 5K run at the end of the Power Weekend final test, so yay!

::hugs back::