Caged I hurt my achilles tendon (that's my best guess), though I'm not sure how. That's all part of getting older huh? I'd heard that once you turn 30, stuff starts happening. I can safely say, yes. Yes it does. And it'll come for you too eventually. So I consulted Nabbalicious who I remember had done something similar about a year ago. Hers just went away. Anytime something like that happens to me though, I'm always hopeful that it's nothing, but scared that it's Something Big and I'll need surgery or something. I looked around online a lot. And yes, I know you can't believe everything you read on the Web. (Oh wait, you can believe me. Would I lie to you? Naah.) What I was mainly looking for though were signs that I should go to the doctor. I think I just overstretched it in yoga or something because I found a lot of descriptions of ruptured achilles tendon. I hadn't heard any loud pop and everything seemed to be in the right places and still attached. Whew. So I asked some friends who were runners what I should do. Ice and rest were the suggestions, so as much as hard as it was to not do anything, I did it. And I want to tell you what happened. I had only one day off this week, so when I went back to work, I wasn't in the best of moods to say the least. I was very edgy and stressed because it's been a very busy week. There may have been growling. (See previous post about grocery shopping.) Then I realized it was because I hadn't been exercising. I was talking to one guy about the whole tendon thing and he said do NOT exercise on it until it's better. I said I know, but I feel so keyed up! It's driving me nuts. I feel like I have little buzzy lines coming off of me. And then he said the words that described exactly how I felt. "I know! It's like you're a caged animal!" Wow. I hadn't realized what an important role exercise plays in my life. It's a great stress reliever and I guess I'd just gotten used to it and didn't think of it quite that way. I've always thought of it in terms of calories in, calories out. So it's good to have some other trick to use on myself besides the looming threat of the scale. "Hey self! Do you want to be pissy and growly today?" "Why, self, no I really don't. I suppose I should go to the gym, then, huh?" "What a wonderful idea."