October 23rd, 2018<\/p>\n
I visited the orthopedist today. He, like the general practitioner, suspects I have a stress fracture. The treatment is simple but time consuming: avoid the activity that caused the issue, and other high-impact activities, for at least 6 weeks. Then take another 6+ weeks for a gradual return to the activity with increasing intensity. I have already completed two weeks of rest at this point, so I have perhaps 4+ weeks to go.<\/p>\n
This approach will take a few months before I should resume my hike in earnest. That takes me to Jan-Feb, the dead of winter.<\/p>\n
I also need to consider how to approach the remaining 850+ miles of my hike: return to my stopping point and continue south? Or head north from Springer Mountain, Georgia, with the rest of the crowd next spring?<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not sure yet what to do. But, on a positive note, I do have plenty of time to think about it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
October 23rd, 2018 I visited the orthopedist today. He, like the general practitioner, suspects I have a stress fracture. The treatment is simple but time consuming: avoid the activity that caused the issue, and other high-impact activities, for at least 6 weeks. Then take another 6+ weeks for a gradual return to the activity with … Continue reading A Long Recovery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appalachian-trail-sobo-2018-19","category-hiking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}