I dropped an unopened bottle of wine on my already sore foot a few weeks ago. It truly was a case of adding insult to injury (giggle). I forgot the wine was in the trunk of my SUV and when I opened it, the bottle came rolling warp speed landed cork end down, right on the top of my foot, which had been feeling cranky for a while. Long story short, I have some nerve damage and a possible stress fracture (I truly doubt the stress fracture diagnosis, and I am putting off the MRI until we see how the nerve meds work). I am currently taking 2 prescribed drugs, a vitamin B complex, a pain patch and a cream from a compound pharmacy, filled with a myriad of medications that are all supposed to work together to take the edge off.

Oh, SO embarrassing and truly painful.

The good news is that my doc recommended that I still do yoga. She said that with nerve injuries, if a person stops moving the injured area, that the result could be much worse than if the area was moved. So, teacher training this past weekend was slightly difficult due to all the physical practice, but I am so thankful that I could actually participate, as I would have been devastated if I was told to stay off my foot. I have a follow up appointment tomorrow morning, so we shall see what the doc says…

Changing subjects, we started practicing our teaching this week, yikes! Noah is my guinea pig, the poor thing has to have a lot of patience as I try to lead him through difference yoga sequences. I am really excited because I am going to be practicing on a few mama friends of mine in just a few days, so I am obsessively working on my plans for this. If you want to be good, you have to practice and you have to get past all your mental “crap”, which I have plenty of.