Summer Ending

Summer slowly plods along with Fall soon ahead. If one day I look back at the summer of 2014, it will be best if I have forgotten running injuries which have kept me from enjoying the best weather since Sue and I moved here almost thirty years ago.

Achilles, Hamstring, Hamstring and now a “to be determined” heel injury. This has been the year that as challenge is met another arises. For the past five weeks my left heel leaves me gimping around after even the shortest of runs and when I get up in the morning.

Earlier in the year I registered for the JFK 50 miler, I have run ten, two since cancer and was looking forward to completing this years event ........ doubts are creeping in.

As far as my health is concerned, the “blood letting”, probing and imaging have come back with good results. The Neuropathy in my Hands and Feet is “improving”, but as nerves seem to return to my feet, numbness is replaced by tingling pain and burning. It's in the realm of unpleasant, not unbearable.

The GI track is an on going work I progress and I am experimenting with diet to see if I can help myself out. I have gone to virtually a no dairy diet, no easy adjustment as it includes half and half in my morning coffee, yogurt, cheese and of course ice cream. I have been on this diet for two weeks and it seems that it is working. I addition I have reduced beer consumption considerably just to make my dietary changes just that more miserable.

There have been bright spots this summer. Sue and I enjoyed some time alone at Chincoteague, I played good rounds of golf including the first with my son Patrick. Maggie got a job and AC&E summer business was stronger than usual.

In a few days I will see a Podiatrist to determine what I have done to my heel and how to address it. If I have to drop out of another event so be it, I can deal with it.

Stay Happy All … Mike