“Whoa!” blurted the surgeon while sliding my x-ray in front
of the fluorescent bulbs. Bones of my
right foot and ankle were illuminated and my riddle was finally solved.
For months I ran trails with pain in my Achilles tendon that
I elected to ignore. It’s nothing, I’d
tell myself and push through the pain to enjoy Mother Nature. Good music and thoughts helped drown the pain,
but after suffering too many months, my self-diagnosed Achilles tendonitis
needed a professional opinion.
“See this here?” asked the surgeon while pointing to my heel
bone that had a stalagmite jutting upwards. “That’s a bone spur that grew into
your Achilles and you broke it off at the base,” he added.
