(I traded music with you in ostnotes in case you're wondering who the heck I am)
I just had to respond to this because I had something similar happen to me. To make a long story short, I love to run and have been on my high school's track and cross country teams since freshman year. Last January when I was running down a hill during practice, I took a nasty fall and really screwed up my knee, basically dislocating it. The doctors said that surgery was inevitable, but I still tried physical therapy for couple months to see if that would get my knee back in place. However, physical therapy didn't really help and I had to get surgery done, which my parents scheduled for the first week of my summer vacation! I had one of the worst summers of my life because I had to have a brace on my leg for two months that prevented me from bending my knee. This meant that I couldn't walk well at all, and not being able to walk well kind of limits the things you can do on summer break. Now it's been about four months since my surgery and my knee has healed enough to allow me to walk and go up and down stairs normally, but my knee is still not strong enough to run on, meaning that track and cross country this year is out of the picture. It really hurts me to see the cross country team practing at school, because I would give anything to be running right now.
I do feel sorry if you ultimately have to have surgery that prevents you from doing somthing you love--gymnastics--for a LONG time. It sucks that things like this have to happen and you can sometimes wish "Why couldn't my pinky have been screwed up instead?!?" I want to wish my best of luck that you get through everything okay, because even if you get a bit depressed you CAN live through it, just don't let the surgery take over you mind.
Again, I hope that you don't feel annoyed/offended/anything negative by me posting this (or that I didn't ramble on), but I hope that your possible surgery works out for you.
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Date: 2006-10-11 06:15 am (UTC)I just had to respond to this because I had something similar happen to me. To make a long story short, I love to run and have been on my high school's track and cross country teams since freshman year. Last January when I was running down a hill during practice, I took a nasty fall and really screwed up my knee, basically dislocating it. The doctors said that surgery was inevitable, but I still tried physical therapy for couple months to see if that would get my knee back in place. However, physical therapy didn't really help and I had to get surgery done, which my parents scheduled for the first week of my summer vacation! I had one of the worst summers of my life because I had to have a brace on my leg for two months that prevented me from bending my knee. This meant that I couldn't walk well at all, and not being able to walk well kind of limits the things you can do on summer break. Now it's been about four months since my surgery and my knee has healed enough to allow me to walk and go up and down stairs normally, but my knee is still not strong enough to run on, meaning that track and cross country this year is out of the picture. It really hurts me to see the cross country team practing at school, because I would give anything to be running right now.
I do feel sorry if you ultimately have to have surgery that prevents you from doing somthing you love--gymnastics--for a LONG time. It sucks that things like this have to happen and you can sometimes wish "Why couldn't my pinky have been screwed up instead?!?" I want to wish my best of luck that you get through everything okay, because even if you get a bit depressed you CAN live through it, just don't let the surgery take over you mind.
Again, I hope that you don't feel annoyed/offended/anything negative by me posting this (or that I didn't ramble on), but I hope that your possible surgery works out for you.
Chantal