http://aspiringmind.wordpress.com The healing of my heel Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:09:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://aspiringmind.wordpress.com http://aspiringmind.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/first-post/ http://aspiringmind.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/first-post/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:09:27 +0000 aspiringmind http://aspiringmind.wordpress.com/?p=27 ]]> I should start by saying this is my third blog…What I do is start the blog, spend hours picking out a theme etc. , get super excited about it and then completely forget about it.    I hope this time is different…   The other two blogs were on different subjects, but this subject has caused me physical pain so I hope my passion for this one lasts.    I figure I have researched so much on plantar fasciitis that I might help someone get through it.   I know I have felt better reading about other people who have it or better yet HAD it and lived to tell.     This is my second bout of it within 3 years.    Last time it was my right foot due to hiking excessively and now it’s my left foot, because I wore the dreaded flip-flops around Boston for 4 miles.    That was 5 months and 1 cortisone shot ago.    I started Physical Therapy today and something called Iontophoresis where they drive steroids into your heel via an electric current.     The cortisone shot took 90% of the pain away, but I have still had pain that is nagging and wears you out mentally.    There are days I still limp if I do too much.    I do not have the benefit of a desk job…and I walk all day long in a hospital.      My hope is this Physical Therapy treatment will get rid of the last bit of pain and this PF will be gone.   Then my goal is finish a 10K…I will be thrilled to run or even run/walk it.   Just to be pain free!

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