Officially, one final is done. Check. In 12
hours, my next final is due, but technically I already finished it! The good news is I’m very happy with
this project, and I’m even happier that I didn’t finish it at some ungodly
hour. Check it out here :)
In about 45 hours, I have my final assignment of the week
due—a paper for Art History. I’ve
only written about a page, but for the first time all week, I realize that I
actually have more time than I thought.
I think I may be relaxed?
For that, I thank all my decent time managing, and definitely all the
prayer. I was significantly more
stressed out at the beginning of
this week, and I’m happy to say that I’m more relaxed now. Maybe I can handle all this work after
all…
In general, gymnastics gets put on the backburner a little
bit during finals week(s). I’m
still trying to do my best right now, to keep up with at least a little
exercise and rehab, but at the present, I can’t seem to find a good block of
time. Not to mention, every time I
even think about working out, my knee
starts hurting. As soon as
all this is over, I’ll get on a
new schedule, and see what I can figure out.
Missy wanted me to see my doctor one last time before I went
home for the summer, so I saw Dr. Lee on Monday afternoon. I was expecting it to be a standard,
fairly uneventful check up, but unfortunately it was a little bit more
discouraging than I was prepared for.
When I talked to my coach about my summer plans the week before, he
became about the third person to tell me that I need to be cautious. Everyone is forcing me to approach this
comeback very slowly, and everyone (including myself) is afraid of what might
happen if I comeback to gymnastics just a little too quickly. More than I want to be back in the
sport, competing, etc.—I don’t want to go through this again. I don’t want to get hurt. John warned me that when I come back in
September, I’ll be gymnastic-ally behind everyone else. He told me this so that I could be
mentally prepared, and so that I knew that know one would be disappointed in
me. But then when I talked to Dr.
Lee, she told me that she would prefer my bars workouts stay as they are
now—practically nothing—until late September. Basically, I can’t do anything that even has the possibility
of me falling… my knee just wouldn’t be able to handle that kind of
impact.
I’m pretty disappointed. I was prepared to be behind everyone come September; but the
thing is, I wasn’t prepared to be THAT far behind… I wasn’t prepared to be
still doing practically nothing.
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