2 Steps Forward ....1 Step Back...

So Monday night  after MMA training i stuck around to practice and Shot take down ..... boy do i wish i had  just gone directly home! Instead after  a couple run through i  went  down  made a move and BOOM ...a horrible  pain surged through my left knee ..... I used to get a similar pain back in high school  often .. i always thought it was my knee cap  slipping out and back into place...... so i just attributed it to that  even though it hasn't happened in about 9 years....  the pain usually  goes away  after about an hour ! Not this time .... i iced it last night and  still when i woke up this morning  it  was slightly swollen and stiff .....After talking with Andrea , we decided the best option was to  just go to the Doc and see whats was up.......After getting some Xrays to rule out a small patella Fracture...  Its mostly decided  that it is probably a miniscal tear ......

 well poo.... I think the apparent disappointment  was written all over my face because my wonderful  lady friend  immediately tried to make me feel better about it but  i truly was disheartened ....all i could think was  all this hard work was  right down the drain...... I tried to tell myself that i wouldn't lose  motivation and that i could just keep at it ... work on upper body  and do my best but absolutely nothing was making me feel better about this 

I decided to  go up to the gym and tell my coaches  about what the doc had said .... and boy did they make me feel so much better.....Hank,  one of the  trainers up there came out and  met before i even got through the door.... and in about 1 minute flat he had changed my whole perspective ..... he told me " it doesn't have to end  training ...... Get  back in this gym and we can work on everything else and avoid that knee while you heal" .....basically about 3 months ago he had the same injury and and it took about a month to  get him back  at  normal training but  if i work hard and  rehab my knee right then i can be back in the game too ....makes me feel a lot better about ........

 so here is to 22 pounds down  ... staying motivated ... and staying strong in the mind  even when my body doesn't want to be!