These Mortal Bodies

Well it looks like the St. George Marathon won't be in Joseph's plans after all. He finished his Saints to Sinners bike race and then started to hit it hard training for the marathon. After a few days of training, he started to complain of tenderness in his foot. I've had a pain in my foot for quite a few months and haven't done anything about it. I haven't gone in to get it checked out, but I figured it was a pulled muscle, tendonitis, maybe a hairline fracture. Anyway, we figured he was suffering from something similar and that he would just have to suffer through it.

The difference with his foot injury is that it is swollen, a little red, and warm to the touch. Today when he woke up and showed me, I told him he should go and get it checked out. He told me he would if he had time. Well I received a text that he was at insta-care hooked up to an IV. After a few more texts and a phone call I learned that he was at work when he felt an extreme burning pain in his groin area. He felt a lump in the area as well. He knew that he needed to get help soon. He never takes medication and hasn't been to a doctor in years. He's had physicals from the doctors at his facilities, but I don't think he's been to a doctor for illness since we've been married. So this was momentous that he even went, and a sure sign of the type of pain he was in.

The doctor felt his inguinal lymph nodes and put pressure on them. They hurt! Then she took a look at his foot and told him he had cellulitis and that it had spread to his inguinal lymph nodes. She also told him that if he had let it go any further, it could have spread to his blood stream and caused sepsis. Yikes! They took x-rays and put him on an IV of Rocephin. He'll go back to receive treatments via IV and he is taking Bactrim oral antibiotics. They've given him a boot to wear in case it was caused by a fracture in the foot.

Needless to say, he won't be running for a while. With the marathon being 7 weeks away. He won't be participating as a runner, maybe as a spectator, but he needs to heal. I'm grateful he got it checked and I'm also grateful it isn't something more serious. I love that guy! Life has a way of reminding us of how mortal our bodies are.