First Ballet Injury

A few weeks ago, I was stepping off an excersise machine (I acctually hadn't been doing any excersise)

and I felt my ankel pull and do a weird clicky thing. I wasn't too concerned until it became so painful that I couldn't walk on it. I went to the doctor, he told me it was just a repetitive strain injury and to rest it.

I went to my physio to see if she could help me any furthur. She couldn't really tell what it was but said it could be an archilles injury.

This worried me a bit because archilles injuries can be extremely drastic for dancers. If the archilles tears or ruptures then it can be the end of their career, for me it would be the end of the world.

I couldn't dance for a week or so and this ment that

I didn't have enough preparation to do my ballet exam even if the mysterious 'injury' did get better.

To cut a long story short, I didn't do my exam but I have the oppourtunity to do it early next year

(which turns out to be a good thing because the sequel to Phantom of the Opera is starting in that place then, I think it is called Love Never Dies)

It also turns out that the pain was probaly due to the fact that I am a slow grower and there is still cartillage in my heel that hasn't turned to bone yet. I was told to rest it for a few more weeks but that was really disapointing because there is a competition on this weekend and it will be the last year that I will be able to enter and we have also started rehersals for our ballet school's concert

(keep an eye on this space for more info)

So this week I decided to do my best at ballet and see how much I was able to do and go from there.

I was absolutely amazed. I had no pain what-so-ever.

Mysterious 'injury' gone, with just as much mystery as it came.

Odd.

Anyway, now I can do the competition, see Love Never Dies and I still get to do my exam.

Through the days that I wasn't allowed to dance I realised more than ever that

I don't just want to dance, I need to dance.