As I mentioned in my previous post, I found out last Friday that my hip is fractured. Right after I left the ortho's office, my sister and I started getting ready for my mom's birthday weekend so I am just now able to focus on it.
The fracture is a hairline, stress fracture on the ball of the hip ball & socket joint. Considering that I have been running on this injury since my youngest was a few months old (he turned 2 in Sept) I have likely been in various stages of fracture/healing for well over a year now. I'm beginning to question the pain center of my brain after walking around with pleurisy from pneumonia for months last winter and running on a broken bone for over a year. Not sure it's working right! I felt pain with these ailments but nothing that would indicate the severity of both.
The likely cause is two-fold. The first contributing factor was 3 very closely spaced pregnancies that sapped my bones and left them weak and brittle (there are only 3.5 years between my oldest and youngest). Second, I felt so good after the delivery of my 3rd child that I was up and running within a week and up to 5 miles in a few months.
The good news is that whatever shape my bones were in when the fracture occurred, they look great now and the doctor is hoping that the fracture will heal on it's own. I cannot run for at least 6 weeks, but can bike, do the elliptical or other machines, walk, & swim. Plenty of exercise options! If it doesn't heal on it's own, then they'll have to surgically put in some pins.(really hope that it doesn't come to that!) but it is not likely that that will be needed. Have a great week!
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