Dance
I can forget my first dance class, and I can forget my first performance; I will never forget hearing the words, “ You may never be able to dance again.” The cold and stark doctor's office gave me shivers. I fixed my eyes on the cheesy motivational posters hung around the room. Hearing the door squeak open snapped my attention towards the doctor as he approached my mom and I. My eyes followed the doctor as he sat down on the creaky chair. His eyes darted back from my mom to me. I could tell he was nervous by the way he fidgeted with his clipboard. After what felt like a life time he spoke,
“I’m afraid that surgery is the best option. Surgery is the only way to reconstruct your hip and if we don’t try now you may lose the ability to
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The name was to long to remember so I called it P.A.O. for short. My hip was going to be broken in three places and re rotated at the angle that normal hips rest at.
I did not know than how terrifying surgery was. My doctors tried to make it as relaxed as it could be. The cheerful nurse made it seem like a huge needle piercing my skin and sliding in between the spaces of my spinal cord was a daily routine. As I doze in and out of consciousness I vaguely remember being wheeled from the pre-op room to the surgery room. The last thing I remember is a bunch of doctors hovering over me saying words that I couldn’t understand.
Until this point, I began to think surgery would be the hardest part of this whole experience. I soon learned how wrong that idea was. Physical therapy proved to be the hardest, painful, and most exhausting thing I have ever done. Working out scar tissue felt like knives scraping the top of my skin. Walking for the first time in ten weeks left me with an awful limp and pain that shot up my leg like needles. Dance motivated me to push through the pain. My stubborn personality persuaded me to beat the odds and be able to dance again. I did my exercises every day twice as many times as prescribed. My physical therapist looked astonished every time I did my exercises like she didn’t expect me to regain muscle so fast. She seemed so impressed that she called my surgeon and scheduled the post-op