As the Groin Burns…The Writer Whines! *sniff*

Ouch….oooo….ouchie. I don’t know what hurts more, my pulled groin or the fact that I have to ice it!

It’s been a bit of a painful week. Monday was my third karate class ever and during that class I did something to my groin. I’m not sure whether it was the insane bottom to the ground wall squats, the overly suggestive partner abdominal work (legs have been wrapped around a woman more in the last few weeks than ever before…fantasy come true or just awkward? hmmm lol) or the “picturing my ex-husband and his tramp” round house kicking.

Whatever the culprit was, my lack of fitness over the last few years landed me with a burning, stinging pain in my groin. Can anyone say “ouchy”?

Some great advice from Twitter friends and the knowledge from my past life as a Sports Injury Therapist had me sitting with a bag of frozen berries between my legs after Monday’s session. Tuesday I could feel it but I knew it was getting better.

Then Wednesday came!

I woke up in the morning thinking my groin was all better. I figured I had just tweaked it a bit but that no real harm had been done. So it was off to Karate, session #4, as scheduled!

How stupid can I be really? (apparently really stupid!)

Feeling jacked and ready to show the boys what this woman was made of, I slipped in to my straight jacket….I mean “gi”….and pranced out to the dojo floor.

Then it began!

We started off with a run and sprints as usual. All was fine. Then we were asked to line up to do lunges across the room. All was NOT fine!

When I went down for my first lunge (get your minds out of the gutter!!) I heard a tearing like Velcro emitting from near my lady bits. That’s when the pain flooded my entire leg. Throbbing, shooting pain traveled from my groin to my foot. OUCHIE!!!!

So, like any sane person I excused myself from the workout and sat to nurse my injury.

YA RIGHT?!! Have we met? I did what most stubborn, nearing middle age, got something to prove, out of their freaking mind woman would do…I kept going!

Lucky for me it was a night filled with kicking drills so by the end of the evening I was kicking myself for being such a stubborn dummy. I couldn’t lift my leg up in front of me by the time I left the dojo but I smiled my way through it…okay grimaced but whatever.

Now, here I am, groin ablaze (not in the way I’d like it to be)with ice threatening frostbite, whining like a big baby.

I suppose I should look on the bright side…I have a sports injury!!! YAY!! That means I was active!! YAY!!!

Nope not helping…back to my whining. Booo hooo hooo *sniff sniff*

Hugs,

Farrah