I am over the moon….
because I saw the orthopedic surgeon guy and I have been given the go ahead to swim again! Freestyle!!!!
A year ago, I re-injured my shoulder for the 7th time by sweeping the floor. I was pregnant with Lily at the time so the darn hormones made my shoulder joint lax.
After 6 weeks of healing time, I went to the physical therapist’s office. She told me that I could NEVER SWIM AGAIN. Those words crushed my very soul into a million little pieces. Swimming had been the one exercise this fat girl actually loved. I don’t mean, tolerate, I mean LOVE. This woman took away my passion for exercise. You don’t do that to a fat girl.
So, I accepted my fate and just thought I would never enjoy exercise again. Then Lily was born and life got crazy. I thought I could do the Tri for the Cure in August, but life was too hard and my shoulder still felt unstable.
Lately, I have just not been able to accept myself. After the “truth of the Wii” I knew that I couldn’t be happy being this overweight and sedentary. I knew I had to, for sure, return to swimming and return to triathlon. There just isn’t anything else in this world that has given me so much pleasure that has been all about me.
So, I got angry and decided that if surgery were the only path to swim again, I would do it. I might have to wait a couple of years for Lily to get bigger, but I would do it.
But yesterday, my ortho picked up the pieces of my shattered soul and put them back together. He said that my particular shoulder instability was genetic and that I was almost predisposed to be better at swimming than the average person. ME!!!!!!!! All I have to do is work hard to build my rotator cuff muscles and that I SHOULD SWIM. IT WILL BE GOOD FOR ME TO SWIM!!!!!
He also said I was a very strong woman. And, he encouraged me to get back into triathlon.
Danskin 2009, you are mine!!!
I am over the moon and on cloud nine, and off to do my strength training!!!
Yay!!! I am sooo happy for you! I also wanted to comment on your birthday post but it wouldn’t let me
So, happy belated birthday, too!