shugaplum
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Hello all! It'll be 2 months on Saturday and I just wanted to post and update everyone on my recovery. I started back teaching dance 3 weeks ago...it was scary at first I move and walk so naturally now that the kids ask me to demonstrate things and I think they forget even more than I do just how bad off I was...and I have to remind them that I'm still recently post-op! I am dancing better than I was 6 months ago. I am doing things I thought I'd never do again and that used to frustrate me to no end. I can once again hold my own in a classroom full of 8 year olds! haha...I'm also choreographing again and truly dancing from the heart now that my hip is not interfering. I can also almost sit in all 3 of my splits again! I will be sure to post some pics soon of my post-THR dancing.
I started back at my other job this past Sunday. I work in a bakery and this whole summer was awful. I have to work so many hours a week to keep my health insurance...and so I struggled every week to do this. I was barely getting through 4 hour shifts. I was taking constant breaks, having mental breakdowns, the works. As I drove to the bakery on Sunday my hip actually started to ache which it hasn't done in 2 months and I knew it was simply a Pavlovian reaction. Once I was there I was amazed how quickly my 6 hours went by without even needing a break! My boss is so happy to have a happy employee again. I am a very hard worker and always put the company first, my co-workers enjoy having me around. But once my hip started to quickly degenerate I was worthless at my job. Since Sunday I've already worked extra hours and come in on one of my days off. My muscles are sore from going back to standing all day but my hip does not hurt one bit.
I think the most amazing revelation to me through all this is how "normal" I feel. I forgot what normal felt like....I had completely lost sight. I'm amazed at just how miserable I was. I was not sleeping through the night, I pushed my friends away because I was so unhappy, I could not do my jobs, I couldn't do what I love, I could barely get up the stairs to my condo and comfortably sit down. At the time I was so much in the frame of mind to just push through it that I thought I could get to next summer, and then it was the holidays, and then I finally made myself see the truth that it needed to be handled immediately. God bless my parents for putting up with me and supporting me through this...they have been incredible. Thank you to my Bonesmart family for listening, cheering, and supporting...and also giving me a place where I feel like I can truly "give back". I love to check on here and encourage all the newbies as I loved being encouraged through the pre surgery jitters. I am grateful that my friends are still there and are slowly coming back into my life. And I'm grateful that recently I've spent a lot of time sore-not in pain-but sore from being able to push my body again without being held back by an unbearable and uncontrollable pain. I've regained the life I forgot I could have.
I started back at my other job this past Sunday. I work in a bakery and this whole summer was awful. I have to work so many hours a week to keep my health insurance...and so I struggled every week to do this. I was barely getting through 4 hour shifts. I was taking constant breaks, having mental breakdowns, the works. As I drove to the bakery on Sunday my hip actually started to ache which it hasn't done in 2 months and I knew it was simply a Pavlovian reaction. Once I was there I was amazed how quickly my 6 hours went by without even needing a break! My boss is so happy to have a happy employee again. I am a very hard worker and always put the company first, my co-workers enjoy having me around. But once my hip started to quickly degenerate I was worthless at my job. Since Sunday I've already worked extra hours and come in on one of my days off. My muscles are sore from going back to standing all day but my hip does not hurt one bit.
I think the most amazing revelation to me through all this is how "normal" I feel. I forgot what normal felt like....I had completely lost sight. I'm amazed at just how miserable I was. I was not sleeping through the night, I pushed my friends away because I was so unhappy, I could not do my jobs, I couldn't do what I love, I could barely get up the stairs to my condo and comfortably sit down. At the time I was so much in the frame of mind to just push through it that I thought I could get to next summer, and then it was the holidays, and then I finally made myself see the truth that it needed to be handled immediately. God bless my parents for putting up with me and supporting me through this...they have been incredible. Thank you to my Bonesmart family for listening, cheering, and supporting...and also giving me a place where I feel like I can truly "give back". I love to check on here and encourage all the newbies as I loved being encouraged through the pre surgery jitters. I am grateful that my friends are still there and are slowly coming back into my life. And I'm grateful that recently I've spent a lot of time sore-not in pain-but sore from being able to push my body again without being held back by an unbearable and uncontrollable pain. I've regained the life I forgot I could have.
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