Ankle Update

Last night I had an appointment with an acupuncture specialist. When Dr. Klein told me to go get acupuncture I have to admit in my head I laughed a little and when I told Rocky he also laughed and said NO WAY. I have always thought that acupuncture was a bit hokey and how can needles being shoved into my body work. I know someone who's tried it for weight loss and it did nothing. BUT at this rate I really am willing to try anything if it means I can run my marathon and be pain free. I was a bit nervous going in because I hate needles and I don't care if they are the size of horse hair, needles are needles and me no like :o( Acupuncture man explained what he was going to do and I guess the needles do not go into the location of pain but into the opposite location. So he inserted needles into my left ankle and left wrist. I looked sort of like this:

Although I didn't actually look. I was already super nervous and I think seeing needles stuck in me would have totally freaked me out. The process takes about 30-45 minutes and every so often he would ask me to move my foot around and to tell him where my pain level was. OMG, it worked, I was shocked. I could totally move my foot much more than I could at Kaiser on Wednesday when I was doing the range of motion stuff with Ms. PT lady. I also could tell that the pain had gone down significantly and today I also noticed that the swelling has gone done a bit. I am not going to jump the gun and get overly excited but WOW, I'm now a believer of acupuncture. I go back next Tuesday for my second visit and check in with Dr. Klein the week after that. We are cutting it very very very close to race day but I think this all might work without me doing anymore damage to the ankle. At least that what I'm really crossing my fingers for.