Well, it was completely unintentional to stop posting updates for this long. A year and a half later, not TOO much has changed, but also many things have changed.
As far as gymnastics and fitness goes, I’ve almost completely been out of doing much at all physical in the past handful of months. I’ve been focusing on PT for my shoulder and upper back. The PRP injection for my shoulder actually WORKED! Within a couple months along with regular PT, I quickly had much less pain and started to get stronger in that shoulder again, and regained most of my range of motion. We haven’t done an MRI to see if the tendon itself is actually healed or not, but clinically, I’m just about recovered from the torn tendon.
I’m still doing PT. For a while I was only doing PT every other week, but I developed an almost chronic upper back and neck muscle spasming – partly due to the shoulder injury and how badly my body was compensating, but also partly due to poor biomechanics in my back and torso that might also be related. My PT was away for a few months, so I was doing PT exercises at home nearly every day, but now that she’s back, she wants me back in to see her every week because I’m such a mess.
I probably could be okay going back to gymnastics, but now I’m scared that I’ve lost too much strength and I’ll get hurt somehow. I keep meaning to start up a home exercise regimen to get back into shape. For a while, my (new) apartment wasn’t set up well for it. I took my time getting my living room arranged and fixed up, but honestly, I have what I need now. I could start now. I should start now.
But I’m also so emotionally drained from the state of the world that I often don’t have the energy. Or time. I’ve gotten involved with some activist groups and that has been taking up a lot of my time and energy as well. And this is far more important than me trying to get back into gymnastics, honestly. Yes, my own health is important, too, but I don’t think I’m UNhealthy.
The other big change in my life since my last post is that I’m in a relationship now – one that I sort of didn’t see coming, but has changed my life drastically, all in ways for the better. The funny thing is that we started dating the day that I moved into my new apartment, so those two important dates in my life are inextricably linked. He has a dog, Lina, a Cirneco dell’Etna (or Sicilian Hound), that I adore and who adores me. I was never much of a dog person before Lina, but now I love meeting dogs we see on the street or at the dog park. And I started and run her Instagram page!
So, let’s see if my attempt to keep up this blog can help get me back my motivation to work out more intensely and more consistently and maybe get back into gymnastics. I miss it.