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Hopping Along
It's been a pretty uneventful weekend for me, which is actually a good thing. I've caught up on my sleep and have spent some time updating my move knowledge, mostly back to back study sessions for that. Doctor has ordered me to be on crutches 3-4 days and an air cast for 1 week, so everyday seems like a vacation with chores.
I've never been on crutches before, but I've played with them. There's something about crutches that tempt you to trying them out if they are just laying around, but if required to become a part of your daily activities, the utmost contempt develops within and they become large, bulky, ugly, and painful. Even if your swinging the correct way, it's still hard, mostly because of my stature and lack of arm muscle to propel me around like a pendulum.
It must be said that I have a great group of friends in Edinboro that are extremely helpful through all of this hobbling, from carrying bag, getting food, fetching items, and giving me car rides. No matter what the challenge, they arise and help without ever thinking twice. Yet with such help, I feel an overwhelming sense of guilt and helplessness. It's not that I am proudfull or over-confidant, it's the idea that I believe I can do it, and even though I need help and will ask, but it's the idea that I'm, well, as one person puts is, "a wuss", something I can't get out of my mind.
After this ordeal, I want to start kickboxing to become fit, and maybe work out around the room to get stronger. Actually, I can't wait to walk to class without little bits of pain or able to clean the room, hang things up that have fallen down again and again, and just enjoy being mobile and now confined to my office chair or a couch.
The upcoming week is going to be a busy one, between Tues./Thurs. 8:00AM mornings for OSD Peer Mentoring (a job I start this week with a student), the Gathering Tuesday night, Bible Study Thursday night, and a Luncheon Friday for Ambassadors. Balance, direction, determination. But for this week, I'll focus on the Amoxicillin and Anaprox with a dose of sleep and a truckload of DVD's.
Someday I would like to venture back to a dirtbike, to somewhat "redeem" myself, even though the thought of that right now is scary. But for now my challenges are homework, classes, getting to class, but my goals are grades, planning, and seeking direction from the one thing that had fallen out of my life for a year and ten months- God. Time for me to seek Him, to glorify Him, and to let him take the pilot's seat. I've been to one side and then the other- happiness is impossible without Him.
Enjoy the Sunday, it's beautiful, and never forget. 9.11.05
I've never been on crutches before, but I've played with them. There's something about crutches that tempt you to trying them out if they are just laying around, but if required to become a part of your daily activities, the utmost contempt develops within and they become large, bulky, ugly, and painful. Even if your swinging the correct way, it's still hard, mostly because of my stature and lack of arm muscle to propel me around like a pendulum.
It must be said that I have a great group of friends in Edinboro that are extremely helpful through all of this hobbling, from carrying bag, getting food, fetching items, and giving me car rides. No matter what the challenge, they arise and help without ever thinking twice. Yet with such help, I feel an overwhelming sense of guilt and helplessness. It's not that I am proudfull or over-confidant, it's the idea that I believe I can do it, and even though I need help and will ask, but it's the idea that I'm, well, as one person puts is, "a wuss", something I can't get out of my mind.
After this ordeal, I want to start kickboxing to become fit, and maybe work out around the room to get stronger. Actually, I can't wait to walk to class without little bits of pain or able to clean the room, hang things up that have fallen down again and again, and just enjoy being mobile and now confined to my office chair or a couch.
The upcoming week is going to be a busy one, between Tues./Thurs. 8:00AM mornings for OSD Peer Mentoring (a job I start this week with a student), the Gathering Tuesday night, Bible Study Thursday night, and a Luncheon Friday for Ambassadors. Balance, direction, determination. But for this week, I'll focus on the Amoxicillin and Anaprox with a dose of sleep and a truckload of DVD's.
Someday I would like to venture back to a dirtbike, to somewhat "redeem" myself, even though the thought of that right now is scary. But for now my challenges are homework, classes, getting to class, but my goals are grades, planning, and seeking direction from the one thing that had fallen out of my life for a year and ten months- God. Time for me to seek Him, to glorify Him, and to let him take the pilot's seat. I've been to one side and then the other- happiness is impossible without Him.
Enjoy the Sunday, it's beautiful, and never forget. 9.11.05
posted by Lindsay K. at 12:21 PM
1 Comments:
way to go hoppy. Crutches are good weapons to poke people with. Maybe the professors will take pity on you.
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