[Rachel Bronwyn]

I imagine I will.

I went in for bloodwork today because my symptoms, though no worse, are persisting and it's disconcerting (not to mention, inconvenient.) I'll be interested to see the results.

The muscle aching went way down over the course of the day and there was no nausea past the morning. I'm still exhausted and light-headed.

The great news is my knee looks terrific. I'm going to start training in May for skiing next winter. I didn't ski or ride at all this season.

The scariest point of all this for me was about a week ago when I had a lot of pain in my feet and it felt eerily similar to the plantar fasciitis I lived with for three years. Recurrent ankle injuries resulted in uneven distribution of weight. I became really fat and it pushed my plantar fascia over the edge. It took three years to get the weight off, four cortisone injections and two weeks of inactivity to heel my feet. I was really frightened that's what I was dealing with again and that it would be years before I felt better. I wish I knew what it is that's making me so tired/light-headed/achy but I'm super relieved it's not that again. One of the neuroscientists I work in the lab with has wicked plantar fasciitis and, since recovering from mine, I feel guilty when I see her walking on her toes.

I bet I'll be OK though. In the meantime, I'm just laying low, doing lots of stretching and sleeping extra. This happens to be the week a friend came to stay with me so, while we're not having a very exciting visit, it's really nice to have help around the house. I've got a modeling job in Vancouver at the end of March and my goal is to be patched up by then.