Saw a doc and borrowed books on managing stress

This morning, I went to Queenstown Polyclinic. I described my symptoms to the doctor, and he made me do a few squats. He said that for my left foot, while I had a normal foot arch when standing, the arch disappeared (i.e. I became "flat-footed") when my knees were bent. It was peculiar, but not that uncommon. As I could have either a stress fracture or gout, he sent me to Singapore General Hospital for an X-ray, and arranged to test my blood for uric acid levels in the polyclinic itself. The X-rays will only come back in a week's time, while my blood sample requires a fortnight to test. The doctor said I would need to come back again in 2 weeks, and he'll go through the results of both tests with me then. Meanwhile, he advised that I lay off running. He also gave me MC for the whole day. I guess that means marathon's off.

Since I was in the Queenstown area, I decided to go to the library which was next to the polyclinic. I borrowed a couple of books on stress management. Very useful stuff. I hope they help me in my work.

In any case, I had things to do in the office, so I returned to work after lunchtime. I reached home at 10.45 pm. After dinner, I checked my blog, and found 3 comments to my last post. They were posts by my running pals, and I thank them for their thoughtfulness, helpfulness and friendship :)