it's Wednesday Again

I love Wednesdays.

But not today cos I am down with sore throat and blocked nose and had to drag myself out of bed to go coaching. I was almost late. Praise God the traffic was smooth.

Still, thank God it's Wednesday. One day closer to weekend.

I asked a fellow coach if she was free to relief me for 2 of my session but she couldn't make it. Can't be help, it was so last minute. Anyway, praise the Lord, the teacher in charge was really awesome. She could hear from my voice I wasn't well and helped me with a little managing of the class. Thank God, the girls were such darlings too. It's funny how sometimes children can be so sweet when they know you are not too well, they will be nice. Hahaha.

I've been feeling so weak lately. Must be all the burning of the midnight oil to finish up my assignment. I really need to have better time management. Lord, stretch my time for work, school, family, training and me time!!! Hahaha.

This Sunday marks the start of DB new season. I found out from Jon that this season, we have to fight for seats. Honestly, I refuse to let this thought bother me. If I do well, I do well, if I don't, God's will be done. I know it seems silly to leave such matters to God. But who am I to live without His consent? Everything I am doing and will be doing is His plan.

Whatever I do now, I live in the present and flow with the peace of my heart. I want to do what I have on hands well. If I am coaching now, I give the best of what I know to the girls. If I am in school, be it a class or lecture, I make sure I pay attention, ask questions and take down notes. When I am at the gym, I make sure I give my muscles a good workout. When I am playing leisure netball, I make sure I go for every single ball and help my team win. When I am rowing, I make sure I row with the team.

If all else fail. Never mind. There is still Daddy God. He loves me no matter I do well or not and His good thoughts for me will never fail me.

Thank you Daddy God. *hugs

I cant take the pain anymore

The nature of my job requires me to be standing most of the time. This is torturing for me as I have pronated feets. Basically, my feets are rolled inwards. This leads to heel pain. Pain that I can feel the moment I stepped off my bed.

So it's either I quit coaching (which is not an option) or I do something about my feets.

Last semester in sch, we learn about the different types of legs and how to prevent it from causing pain and soreness to us. That's when I found out about motion controlled shoes for pronated feets. Ever since, I've been wanting to buy a pair. But these shoes are customized and customized stuffs arent cheap. The cheaper option is motion controlled insoles. It is slightly more affordable than a whole shoe. But I'm so broke after paying sch fees.

so...

Anyone willing to sponsor me w/o anything in return?

Jehovah Jireh (Part 1)

It means the Lord will provide.

As recorded in the bible, Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son Issac to God. When going up the mountain, he brought nothing but wood, fire and knife to complete the sacrifice. On the way up, Issac asked "Where is the lamb for the burnt offering?" Abraham replied: "God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering." On the top when Abraham was about to kill his son, God stopped him and showed him a ram caught in a thicket and asked him to use that instead. God had place the ram there in advance knowing He is going to need a subsitute for Issac.

Isn't it amazing?

Anatomy of the Knee (update of my injury)

This morning, I visited my lovely physio for a 2nd assessment of my medial meniscus injury. After assessing me, she realized that I have a very weak right VMO which is believed to be the cause of the clicking and locking/jamming I have been experiencing til date.

Let me bring you through a quick lesson on the anatomy of the knee - Meniscus & VMO, so you can understand what is going on in my knee :)

Meniscus refers to the shock absorbers between the femur (thighbone) and tibia (shinbone). We have 2 menisci(plural) in each knee.


The medial meniscus, located at the inner aspect of the knee and the lateral meniscus located at the outer aspect of the knee. The lateral one is highly mobile, slides along with knee movements and absorb impact. The medial one moves very little as it is tightly bound to its surrounding structure as a result it is the one that is most commonly injured. One can injured the meniscus by twisting it (don't try) and having your full weight transmitted through one knee via the meniscus. Usually, this will cause a tear. I only strained mine so I guess I didn't transmit my full weight on it :p

Now, what is VMO? VMO stands for Vastus Medialis Obliquus, it is the lower part of the vastus medialis muscle / "teardrop" muscle.

The VMO fibres pulls the patella towards the medial side and prevents it from dislocating so if the VMO becomes weak there may be a tendency for the patella to be pulled to the lateral side. This is exactly what is happening to me now. My right patella is being pulled to the lateral side because my VMO is weak.

I am now undergoing rehab... eh... actually not really until after this weekend's "Gallop of the Dragons" race :p Meanwhile, I am just doing some strengthening, seeing my lovely physio once a week to get a "relaxing" sports massage to release all the tightness in my right leg.

My lovely physio will also K-tape me (look above) and I gotta wear the tubicgrip or whatever you call it plus I need to tape up my knee for any physical activity.

I had a good conversation with my lovely physio and I am beginning to understand my body better. Honestly, I am physical unfit. After "Gallops of the Dragons", I will be a good girl, do my proper rehab, strengthening, correct my posture and get myself ready for the next netball or DB season.

May the good Lord bless me :D

Reference List
Introduction to the knee meniscus, Functional anatomy of the meniscus
Retrieved on May 13, 2010 from http://www.kneeguru.co.uk/KNEEnotes/node/1819
Picture of Vastus Medialis
Retrieved on may 13, 2010 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vastus_medialis.png
The patella - important anatomical relationships
Retrieved on may 13, 2010 from http://www.kneeguru.co.uk/KNEEnotes/node/1800

Injuried

My right knee is swollen. Xiu suspect is a meniscus injury, I thought so too. But we can't be sure until I see Fizah on Monday afternoon.

Right now, I can feel the tightness of my right leg from my knee down to my ankle. Think the blood is having a hard time flowing to and fro.

Honestly, I am not worried at all. Because in Jesus name, I am healed. I know the Lord is working on it now. I trust Him that all will be good.

P.S: I am skipping Kiyah's land training later. Only going water training.

Glory comes with a price

It took me 49.07 minutes to finish my reservoir run today. Personal best after I stopped running there since 2004.

My right knee is hurting now. Nothing serious, bearable. Come on I just finished a reservoir run how bad can it be? HAHAHA. Old netball injury. It was hurting since last night. Thank God, there's no swelling, that's a good sign. Just clicking sounds being produced from time to time. Felt as if my bones are rubbing onto one another and my blood can't really flow up & down smoothly. Sometimes I feel like my bones at the joint are stucked and I need to position my knee at a certain angle to loosen them. A loud clicking sound plus a "ahhh..." from me indicate that it is loosen.

If this continues, it means I need to go visit either Mingrong or Fizah again. My physios.

LORD, I WILL BE WELL THROUGH YOU! I WANT TO TRAIN!

Speaking what I seek

I declare that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

The thumb is still feeling stiff. The left ankle is sore. But the spirit is high and willl overcome dragonboat training through Christ.

I can do all things with Him in me :)