Shin Splints
So through out my many years of dance, I've developed a lovely little problem called shin splints! It happens when you do alot of jumping and moving on craptastic floors. So lately it hasn't been to much of a bother, but today however Imanaged to cause a flair up. But only in one leg. My right. Now usually I'd just kinda "mark" the moves we're doing, but today I decided, since its a preformance peice, that I'd keep going full out. BOY WAS THAT STUPID! I ended up in worse pain and any movement once so ever made it that much worse. So finally I decided to bring it up with my dance teacher. Miss Chantel. That was a good idea, because I found out, after all these years of pain, that I'm suposed to be icing my legs everyday. Not just when Im having a major pain, but all the time. So after dance I was in so much pain, and not wanting to cry infront of the boys, I went into the waiting room and thought about how I was going to drive everyone home. I realized the less i drove the better, and got Erin (my sister), to go and ask Nathan to drive Dana and himself, and then I'd drive home from there. Since Nathan is SO VERY cool, and now my best friend (whether he wants to or not), he did just that. However getting into the driver side I began to rush because I wanted to be in pain for the least amount of time possible. AGAIN not a good idea, roads are slippery in the winter! So I end up behind this slow moving stupid head and we get stuck at a red light. I was following pretty close behind and was trying to stop when I hit a nice little patch of black ice. So I kept sliding towards this morron who just sat there (he had room to move up and avoid the accident that didnt happen). So just as Im about to close my eyes and pray the car stopped. All I said was "God..." and we where stopped! I love God, he's always watching.
He was watching over me the other day when I was on my way to Morris, Mb. Now usually my mom drives, Erin takes shot gun, and I sleep in the back. Well only one of those where the same. And I didnt like it! My mom had to stay back becasue of a job change and training. So I was on my way to morris in crappy wheather. Most of the time I couldn't see farther then 10 feet infront of me. I ended up driving through 2 snow drifts that I didnt see where on the road until I was on them. Thats when the problems started. First everything went cold, then I had no stearing, then it smelt sweet, and then I pulled over. The first thing I did was turn off the car, 2nd was call dad, 3rd call Eddie, 4 check under hood to see if any belts where loose of off. I was paniced and angry and had no clue where to look! Im no car person. So I called my dad back to tell him there was green fluid all over (anti-freeze), but I couldnt see the belts. Afer I was done with my dad I told Eddie. Now Eddie is a God sent, because with out him I would have been in hysterics! So Eddie arranged for Terry (a co-ordiner from Morris) to come pick us up. Then Eddie drove into Morris and got us a tow truck. Got the van towed to our machanic. Then came all the way back to Morris to pick us up and drive us home! The whole time we sat there and waited for Terry 1 car stopped. A woman somewhere around her 20's-30's. It was wierd, the whole time I was thinking about the story of the Good Sameritan. All the cars went by quickly, on the other side of the raod. No one looked back. She was the only one. Crazy eh?