Still having trouble with numbness in my thigh.  Been trying to loosen the muscles up hoping it will allow the compressed discs to separate.  Although very painful in the beginning of rehabilitation, by the end I am ready to fall asleep.  During our workout today Brent had me do an exercise to loosen up my quads. It went well when working on my left leg…not so much on the right leg.  I couldn’t completely do the exercise because of the tightness.  I really wanted to cry at one point it was so painful.  By the time I was done, I was pretty relaxed so I headed back to my desk.  WELL…the quad in my right leg started cramping up like crazy…yes, that did make me cry.  I couldn’t do anything to make it better.  I tried rubbing it, massaging it with the lacrosse ball, walking around…nothing helped; it stopped about an hour later.

The good thing is that the numbness wasn’t worse at the end of today. Last night the numbness increased so much it had me pretty worried.  I’m feeling a little better about things today; trying to be optimistic and staying off WebMD so I won’t self-diagnose myself.

As far as the half marathon goes; I’m not sure what’s going to happen but I'm going to push forward as best I can.  I can walk so I am going to try to do some this weekend.  Eventually I’ll work myself into a run/walk.  I have 4 hours to finish it before they throw me in the back of a truck and escort me to the finish line haha…so I need to find a good pace.

But on a serious note, and I never thought I would say this about running; I am so disappointed that this is turning out this way.  I’m so excited about the progress I made while training for the half.  My workouts were going great, my running was improving so much, and the weight was falling off.  I was in the best mindset I’ve ever been.  I’m praying I don’t lose it completely.  I don’t want this to become one of those ridiculous setbacks I have.  My new goal isn’t to run that half, it’s to not lose what I worked so hard for and to get back into that same mindset I was in before this happened.