Wow, it has been super, super busy these few weeks. IT seems like we are always doing something, everyday. I can't imagine how my mom felt with 4 of us having different schedules all the time! I have a hard enough time with just Lilly's schedule. ha
She just finished up her second year of ballet and has already told me that she wants to do it again next year. She has been working very hard in class every week for her final 'performace' for us and wouldn't you know that when that day came, last Tuesday, she had suddenly gotten sick about mid afternoon. I was at my doc appointment and my mom was watching her when I had texted my mom I was going to stop and pick up some flowers for her for that night. To which my mom replied, no need Lil is puking! I immediately thought, you have GOT to be kidding me!!!!! So she missed her last ballet class where they were going to be wearing some fairy wings and were able to wear a fancy skirt to perform in. I think I was more bummed than her. She only has class once a weak and there are only like 2 parents nights a year where we get to sit in and see what she is doing in class. She doesn't really practice at home, cuz after all she is still pretty young for that type of routine...so I was really looking forward to seeing her 'dance.' Oh well, there's next year!
We had a wonderful Mother's Day. We spent it in Maumee with my mom and thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it! We brought Rosie in to play with Jazz, my parents 3 yo golden, as if we could leave her home. lol Right before Mother's Day though I had injured my knee when I was playing with the kids. It wasn't some big traumatic experience or anything like that, in fact wen it happened I was just kind of like, oh my knee, then got up and was fine. It wasn't until the day after that I started to have some discomfort with it. I babied it for about a week or so then decided to go See my doctor cause it was still bothering me and I was in a fair amount of pain. So I went in and he tells me that I have patella femoral groove disorder. I know, I thought the same thing when I heard that!! HUH???? My first thing of course was, do I need surgery? He said that at this point I don't need it if I am willing to put in some hard work. So naturally I am willing to do whatever it takes to avoid surgery. To top it all off, when he was explaining it to me, it basically came down to this....every knee cap fits smoothly in a groove, but due to my ehem lack of toned muscle in my quad, my knee cap is essentially going outside of the groove and rubbing in place where it shouldn't being rubbing, thus the pain. So it was sooo incredibly great to hear that because my quad muscles suck, i have incurred this injury. lol So now I am in physical therapy 3x week for at least the next 5 weeks. Talk about taking a blow when I was already feeling pretty low these days. So I am working hard at getting my knee back to normal with NO SURGERY! I can't kneel on it and it is hard for me to get up from being on the ground because I don't want to put all my weight on it. My PT said that even though he is not "treating" me right knee it wouldn't be a bad idea to do all the exercises that I am doing for my left, for my right also. I guess this was the wake up call for me to really change some things in my life, such as my weight finally getting to where I need to be not just for myself and my own health but for my kids too.
I have been doing pretty good with all that I am trying to work on but every once in a while something like this comes along that just seems to yank you right back down. Seems like that is happening more often than not. So up we go, time to start over again!
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