Flashback Friday: Injury waiting to happen

My first test of the semester is done and out of the way! Hallejuah. That means I am one step closer to being done with my prerequisites and getting into Nursing School. That deserves a HELL YES.

Many of you mentioned that I’m a strong lady after reading my break-up story.

Let me just tell you that I’ve had a lot of practice learning to be strong and persevering…

That’s because I’m injury prone and crazy medical things always seem to be happening to me. Seriously, this started at the age of 2 and has pretty much continued on through adulthood. I seem to have the curse.

It all started at the age of 2 when I had to have my first surgery…

I had chronic ear issues and had 7 surgeries from age 2 to 7. I even started talking much later than the average child simply because my hearing wasn’t up to par.

Broken humerous bone. I dropped something out of my highchair, reached back to get it, and stuck my arm in between the bars of my chair. Sure enough, the highchair came tumbling down breaking my arm.

First real gymnastics injury. I loved having a cast and I felt like a hardcore badass. This was some kind of torn ligament in my ankle.

You can read all about this fun injury here. I tore my heel in half and ruptured my achilles tendon. This was a very long recovery filled with a ton of physical therapy and about 4 different casts. Fun times.

My kitten, Stormy, entertained me for long hours sitting in that chair.

Looks like I ate healthy during my recovery. Nothing like a bottle of Sunny D and a 100 Grand Bar to keep your body in the healing mode.

I broke both ankles at the same time and got the joy of being in a wheelchair for a month.

Please don’t mind the belly shirt paired with pajama pants. It’s a sexy look, I know. I broke my hand and disjointed my finger in cheerleading in highschool. I had to walk around flipping everybody off all day long.

There are many many more that I sadly can’t find pictures too…but for a short (ok, long) rundown here we go.

• 7 surgeries on my ears
• torn ligament in my ankle
• stress fracture in both wrists (at the same time)
• broke both ankles (at the same time)
• ruptured Achilles tendon and broken heel bone
• Broken hand and disjointed middle finger
• Appendectomy (I got my appendix removed)
• Locked my SI joint in my back and couldn’t move for a few days
• Broken arm

The list goes on and on. I’m thankful I never had any knee problems. Fingers crossed.

So, ya see, I’m resilient. I remember I would always be getting back to my old level at gymnastics and then right when I’d get there..I’d have another injury. Another setback. It took all I had to not give up and keep pushing forward. I’ve been pushed down more times than I can count. Each time I’ve  gotten back up. My history with injuries taught me so much about pushing through when life gets hard.

Life’s been hard…but I’ve fought and plowed through every second of the last two months and came out on top.