How did it happen?

femur injury- 

 Sharing the best of what I and the boys and Kyle remember...the tubing rope was under my leg and the boys were going tubing... the rope pulled tight and somehow wrapped around my leg sending me into the air doing a complete 360 "summersault" in the air... Micah said my head was coming towards the back seat of the boat and he pushed my head down so my body wouldn't crash into the back of the boat helping it turn so I landed on my butt back into the boat on the boat floor. 

Kyle stopped the boat, and as I stood up, I just felt confused like a concussion feeling, but overall pretty good despite the rope burn around my leg. I remember going to the back of the boat to cry it out a minute because I was really scared. 

We moved on that day thankful I was alright and only had a scar to show for it... 

I went back to running and racing like normal, until about 6 weeks later my hip was giving me some trouble on my daily runs. The more I ran, the worse my hip felt causing me to completely stop and get it checked out. But even then I was told it was a hip flexor strain and appears to be severe by the way it was causing difficulty healing itself. I then had an MRI to see what was going on thinking I'd find out there was maybe arthritis or damage from all the running I have done so far... and the phone call was shocking when the doctor called to tell me the MRI results...

The results I received that night pointed directly towards the result of my boat incident because the entire hip looks good otherwise... which I guess is good news I have a healthy hip for future running! However, femur stress injuries take time to heal. And the added bone marrow edema in my femoral shaft healing as well...

To be truthful I remember nothing other than the moment I stood up from the bottom of the boat. So let the healing begin...

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