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gymnellie
Hi all,
I haven't posted in a while. I have enjoyed reading everyones posts over the last couple of days. I guess by my title you can figure out that my dd decided to quit. I was a little disappointed but I didn't let her know that. Her decision to quit came after another injury! As i've said before she hurt her right knee in October and it kept her out until January. She than broke her little toe on her left foot about 2 weeks after being released from the dr. That injury kept her out for 3 weeks. Than at the end of April she said that her right knee was hurting her again. Took her back to the dr. and guess what? She had the same injury that kept her out for 4 months, just in a different part of her knee. The dr. said that it would probably be best for her to take a long break from gymnastics. She said to stay out of the gym completely! Before she was allowed to go in and condition and swing bars but this time she said not to even let her go in. DD was upset. So I convinced dr. that surely it would be ok to just go in and condition and just not do anything involving the knee. Dr. agreed to this. BTW, Dr. used to be a PE teacher and said that she knows how competitive girls can be and kinda understood dd's position. Well dd did this for about 2 weeks and told me that gym wasn't fun anymore. I told her that I understood because basically since October she hadn't been able to do gymnastics in the true sense of the word. She decided she wanted to try something else. She couldn't do anything until the dr. released her. Well she recently got released by dr. but dr. said that if she was her dd that she wouldn't allow her to go back to gymnastics until the fall to give the knee more time to truely heal. DD said that right now she didn't want to go back. She really does want to try something else. So we looked into swimming/diving! I showed her TDivers videos and she said that really looked like something she would like because she can still do "gymnastics"(tumbling skills) and swim at the same time. The prob with that is there is nowhere around here (except in Nashville) that offers this. I am not driving to Nashville. So we are trying to figure out something for her to do. She wants to stay active and since we homeschool, I really want her involved in stuff outside of the house and church. Does anyone have any suggestions? Sorry such a long post for a simple questions but thought I would catch up a little. I miss the gymnastics part of the gym, but I don't miss the financial part or the parent drama part of it. Thanks for listening!
Thanks
Trish
I haven't posted in a while. I have enjoyed reading everyones posts over the last couple of days. I guess by my title you can figure out that my dd decided to quit. I was a little disappointed but I didn't let her know that. Her decision to quit came after another injury! As i've said before she hurt her right knee in October and it kept her out until January. She than broke her little toe on her left foot about 2 weeks after being released from the dr. That injury kept her out for 3 weeks. Than at the end of April she said that her right knee was hurting her again. Took her back to the dr. and guess what? She had the same injury that kept her out for 4 months, just in a different part of her knee. The dr. said that it would probably be best for her to take a long break from gymnastics. She said to stay out of the gym completely! Before she was allowed to go in and condition and swing bars but this time she said not to even let her go in. DD was upset. So I convinced dr. that surely it would be ok to just go in and condition and just not do anything involving the knee. Dr. agreed to this. BTW, Dr. used to be a PE teacher and said that she knows how competitive girls can be and kinda understood dd's position. Well dd did this for about 2 weeks and told me that gym wasn't fun anymore. I told her that I understood because basically since October she hadn't been able to do gymnastics in the true sense of the word. She decided she wanted to try something else. She couldn't do anything until the dr. released her. Well she recently got released by dr. but dr. said that if she was her dd that she wouldn't allow her to go back to gymnastics until the fall to give the knee more time to truely heal. DD said that right now she didn't want to go back. She really does want to try something else. So we looked into swimming/diving! I showed her TDivers videos and she said that really looked like something she would like because she can still do "gymnastics"(tumbling skills) and swim at the same time. The prob with that is there is nowhere around here (except in Nashville) that offers this. I am not driving to Nashville. So we are trying to figure out something for her to do. She wants to stay active and since we homeschool, I really want her involved in stuff outside of the house and church. Does anyone have any suggestions? Sorry such a long post for a simple questions but thought I would catch up a little. I miss the gymnastics part of the gym, but I don't miss the financial part or the parent drama part of it. Thanks for listening!
Thanks
Trish