Maybe….
I should start stretching so my mom won’t say ” your castings were a complete waste of your time and a complete waste of our money.”
Because….
I know that is the truth. Yeah. Ouch. Ugh this morning was abnormally worse than most Monday’s. I need to stop screwing myself over if I’m going to do this right. At least my day got progressively better despite my depressing start in the AM. The weather is beautiful so I went outside for a loooong run/walk to contemplate my actions. Hmm. Fuuuun stuff we get to deal with huh?
I’m off to try and be productive and finish a thing or two for school. Hope your Monday morning was better than mine!
-Katy
I understand were you are coming from. sometimes i don’t feel like doing the same routine i do day to day. like stretching. But i need to do it. I wish i could wake up and just start my day without doing the stuff i have to do. My mom and my dad say the same thing about exerise machines they pay for. I be like im going to do it. do it one day then might not do it until next week. lol
your not the only one who had a bad morning. I wish my body was to act right today. it makes me bad when my body wants to do what It wants to do.
I went through years of casting and braces. They never did a thing for me. It always felt like the doctors were just experimenting on me. Short term gains that always reverted.
The only thing that worked was surgery followed by a year in a brace. The results from a surgery without a year in a brace only lasted a couple of years.
Tell me again why I spent all those years of my childhood worrying about stretching?
Kiki- Yes that’s exactly how I feel, I wish it was easy to just make myself do it every day but it’s just so blahh that I don’t want to have to deal with it. No one in my family gets that. Yeah it is rough when our minds and bodys cannot work together!
Greg- The thing is, is that the last surgery I had was when I was 5 and I don’t see myself doing anything further in the years to come. My CP is pretty mild…but do you think that is a mistake not following through with stretching and therapy? Of course the doctors and therapists are going to say I have to do all these things…but they are aiming to get a) money and b) perfection, and that’s just not realistic in my mind. I want to know that I can actually live life as normally as possible, knowing that I’ll be pretty secure in my future.
I know just what you guys are talking about. I just wish people would at least try n’ have empathy. But it’ll never happen. N’ for the record, my Sunday and Monday sucked! I ended up getting sick n’ not “I’ve got a cold” sick either. It could ALWAYS be worse. Think and stay positive!
you do realize that you will continue to get tighter with age right? and ppl with cp age faster, and get tinghter faster ect ect. i was fine w/out stretching when i was a teen then when i left for school and didnt have a ot to help things started to hurt and im a lot tighter now. streaching will help believe me.
I’m sure stretching will help, I just have to convince myself that. It’s hard to think of my future sometimes when it comes to my CP, thats why I think I don’t take it seriously enough, since it’s not right in front of me.
Take it one stretch at a time.
I admire your courage and determination. Keep up the good work!
Thank you
great post as usual!