Noah's hand has pretty much healed. The burnt skin has fallen off and now there is nothing but fresh pink skin. It is a different color than his normal skin color, but if you didn't know he had burned it you wouldn't notice it. Really the only time you would probably tell that he burned his hand is if you saw it when he was cold. For some reason the fresh pink skin turns a dark pink, then you can tell there is something wrong.
We have finally met Joel, Jessica's running coach. He is back for the month. I took Jess for her practice yesterday and Ryan went with us. Joel asked where Noah was because he wanted to get him started with running. I told him he could have Ryan and, that, Noah and Cody would be there next time. So, Joel had his father, who usually trains Jess, take Ryan on the loop to show her the course. Ryan ended up running three 1000 meter runs along with sprints and drills. She also went out for a run with Chad last night. This morning she said her legs hurt.
Jessica is nursing an injury to her lower right shin (on the inside of her leg). It is hard and lumpy, and Joel felt it is basically a knot and proceed to rub it out. Jessica took it all in stride, but there were a few times I think she would loved to have come up swinging. We ended up taking her to a doctor yesterday. Oh, how I miss our doctors. Our sports medicine doctors back home understood Jessica and they actually had an office. The doctor's office here was in a house. Doesn't that just seem odd. Then come to find out he was a family doctor who also dabbled in sports medicine. Maybe he did more then just dabbled, but I want a guy who does nothing but sports medicine and not deliver babies as well. Anyway, after asking her how many miles she is running, studying her shoes (yes, he made her take her shoes off and studied them), watching her walk back and forth, and a few mobility tests, he decided she has a stress injury maybe even a stress fracture. To be honest the stress injury was a no brainer for me. He basically inferred that Jess needed new shoes because she has about 240 miles on the ones she has now and she could use some orthotics in her shoes. He also didn't want her taking any pain medication because all she was going to do was mask the symptoms and we wouldn't know if she was really healing. He also said that she wasn't very flexible (like most runners) and prescribed physical therapy to help her gain some flexibility. Funny, Jessica is very flexible. He sent us for some x-rays to make sure that there wasn't a stress fracture and sent us for some blood work to make sure she had enough Vitamin D. I found out at the lab that insurance does not like to pay for people to get their Vitamin D tested here in Washington. Apparently to many people like to know their Vitamin D numbers here and insurance is tired of paying for it. No joke. I had to sign a waiver stating that I would pay for the test if insurance declined it. I have never been asked by Jess's previous doctors about her Vitamin D levels. So, what does Vitamin D have to do with her leg, you ask. The very short version is, simply, Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium which she apparently needs for her leg to heal properly. We will get the results from that test today. We received the results from the x-ray last night and the doctor said the radiologist indicated it was normal, no stress fracture, but, that he would know more when he received her Vitamin D levels. I still don't know where that leaves us.
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