Dear Running, I Miss You!

So there is a lot of updating to do! Unfortunately not all of it is good news.

I went down to Starkville to see the doc a few weeks ago and he gave me some medicine to take for my pain. I started running again and ran for about a week and a half with hardly any pain. I was able to get up to 7.5 miles! I felt great and was really excited. However, last week, on Monday, I ran 5 miles and felt the pain the whole time, but it was bearable and not too bad. Tuesday the pain was worse on my run, and Wednesday the pain was horrible! It hurt just as bad as the first day I felt it and it started going down my leg.

I went back down to the doc on Tueday and there is a possibility it could be a nerve problem. I got an MRI while I was there to make sure it's not a bulging disk. I am now taking nerve medicine and anti-inflammatory. Hopefully I will find out tomorrow what the MRI showed.

I am doing my best to stay positive about all of this. There is a reason for it all and I know God will take care of me, even if He does it in a way that I don't understand. I am finding comfort, peace, and joy in his many promises. My prayer has changed from "God please heal me" to "God do whatever it takes to bring you glory." If God receives more glory from me being injured right now than from me being able to run, then I would rather be injured.

"For I know the plans I have for you...plans to prosper you and not to harm you; plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11