Pineapple tips and footie

We bought a pineapple yesterday at the grocery store for $1.99. I never bought a pineapple before in my life, but I remember when Kristin from Iowa Girl Eats posted on her blog how to pick out a decent pineapple, and when it was ready to eat.

Quote from one of her blog entries:

Pineapple buying tip: the ones that are more yellow than green, are usually the sweetest. Also, try plucking out one of the fronds from the top of the pineapple. If it comes out easily, it’s usually ripe and ready!

Kristen also posted on how to cut a pineapple. All these years I never bought a pineapple because I thought it’d be impossible to cut. Little did I know how easy it was.

This will be my fuel before tonight’s first soccer game of the season. I should have been smart and planned ahead for my ankle brace and tried it on and kick the ball around. But I never did get around to it. Oops. I hope I’ll be okay!

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Ankle massages

When name twin (My soccer team mate. We have the same first name, and almost the exact same last name! We became friends instantly lol) was working on my ankle at my Massage Therapy appointment, it didn’t feel as though she was doing much to it at all. But when I walked out the door as my appointment was done, it felt so much looser than my left foot which is 100%. I love it.She just told me to take it easy on the treadmill for the next little while and do ‘small runs’. Small runs to me, means 500 meters and long runs are 4k. Small runs to her though, is 4k. So I’m alright to keep on truckin’ on my “Learn to Run 5k!”

Written in my Sports Medicine chart, was something about my right knee. I’ve always had this tendon or ligament fall over my knee cap when I was doing squats/lunges and it’s been a royal pain since I was in my late teens. I just never did get it checked out because it hasn’t been painful. I can just feel it “snap” over when I bend. It doesn’t happen all the time when I bend my knee, but it’s definitely there most times. Name twin told me that it was my quadriceps muscle flipping over my knee cap! I’m not sure how she is going to end up fixing it, but it could also be due to my ankle and the heel spur I had in my foot as a child.

So much of it makes sense! Jeesh!

I go back to have another ankle massage next week then I’ll stop going to her as my work’s insurance doesn’t cover much massage therapy. I’ll be doing physio with her co-workers. I’ll be going to the same people that worked on the Boyfriend’s shoulder when he separated his shoulder blade last year. Apparently the guy that I “chose” (I don’t even know why I got to choose, but whatever) is a half ironman finisher. (The boyf is a FULL ironman finisher heh heh.). So that will be neat to talk to him about stuff I already somewhat know about, hey?

Soccer starts up after Mother’s Day. Hope I’m good to go with that ankle brace!!

Oh! And Jeanine is giving away two $15 gift cards to Starbucks. Nice huh? Enter here.

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I….. don’t really know?

After having a 5 month long break of indoor soccer I went back to my Sports Medicine DR for a check-up as he mentioned I should do before I sign up for outdoor season. I remember him telling me that just taking the time off, would heal it. Massage therapy and physio wouldn’t work as this is an ‘odd case’. It’s not my muscle, it’s my bone. He mentioned I had a bruised fibula. But today he said it could have either been that, or a very small fracture.

Thank heavens I ended up getting my pedicure on Saturday, because so many people were at my feet today, twisting it, and trying to find out where the problem lies. After casual joking and chatting my DR decided that I do indeed would require some physio (Yea, huh!?) and/or get an ankle brace if I decide to take up outdoor. It was a funny convo in the patient room.

DR: So, do you want to play soccer this season?
Me: Well. Do you recommend I stay off? Because I’d rather have my ankle healed than to play this year.
DR: Something along the lines of  … Well I’m not telling you that you can’t, but do you want to? (Clearly he went more in depth than that.)

His assistant / intern / not-sure-who, snickers at us playing back and forth to the questions.

All in all, I’m signed up for physio. Funny enough my outdoor (name twin! Nancy with the almost-exact last name as me!) team mate is a massage therapist there and I have her for physio. How cool, right?

I went next door to get fitted for an ankle brace and walked out with this $84.00 one — which is covered with my work’s insurance, thankfully. It felt like I was on springs when I had it on. My ankle did not budge.

Let’s hope that they can heal me. They told me they love it when ‘people like me’ come in for physio, because like I said – it doesn’t hurt when I play soccer all the time. Just certain times I can make it KILL, and other times? 110%. So deceiving, this ankle.

Let’s see what she can do. ;)

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