I had planned to make Monday my first day back in training but a couple of things interfered with that

1) Went to babyshower Sunday afternoon and ended up with nasty, nasty gastro from the fingerfood along with some friends who went. Had to prepare a presentation to give on Monday at uni and was spending about 5 mins on my computer and 5 mins on the tiolet continuously Sunday night. Even when I did go home to bed my sleep was interupted by dashing to the toilet a little too often.

2) Had another osteopath appointment on Monday afternoon and was banned from exercise until FRIDAY!!!! She wants me to give the treatment a chance to work for a while before I get back into it.

She says if I get grumpy and want to train to remember all the money I've spent trying to get things fixed over the last couple of years and the frustration of it not working and I think she has a point there. I might do as I'm told even though it means my arse is going to be double it's original size by the end of the week!

Good news though - she said "I see no reason why we won't be able to get your knee back to ONE HUNDRED PERCENT!"

She's not so optimistic about my back because looking at my back x-rays which show my upper back and some of my lower back she says I do have Post Schermanns disease so I will get sore from time to time and have to relieve the pain with swimming and that lying down stretch she showed me.

I also have some degradation in my back from an injury which is likely to have occurred 10 to 15 years ago - so I guess that's partially irreversible but we might be able to try to prevent more degradation.

She showed me on the x-ray how the scoliosis in my back looks like it's actually more in my lower back than my upper back. We will have to get another x-ray of my lower back sometime to check that out and to find out for sure whether or not I also have the spondylolisthesis she suspects there.

Still after thinking for so long that my long distance running days were over I'm really happy since I think i should be able to manage the back problems enough to enjoy my sport.