Desperate Measures

So I have this rotten thing called Achilles Tendinitis. It's horrid. It's especially horrid when you dance every day of your life. So it's a re-occurring injury that doesn't prevent me from dancing, but it does limit me a lot. The tendinitis comes and goes in phases, but when it comes...it stays way longer than it is welcome.

We had a guest artist in town this week from New Jersey teaching all of our classes. While explaining something entirely different, he mentioned an exercise that he did when he had achilles tendinitis....so of course I asked him all about it today. Exercises are one thing, but he said that his saving grace was ice baths.

Great.

It's so cold already and the thing that will help me most is submerging my entire foot in a bath of ice water. I shouldn't forget to mention that today when I went to catch the bus, it was 19 degrees outside. 19. So you can imagine that dunking my foot in a bucket of ice water was the LAST thing I wanted to do when I got home today.



...But I did it anyway....

And I held a heating pad while I did it. It only hurt excruciatingly until it went numb.



Stay warm dear readers

Nothin but love,
Bethany