Clarice update: Bon Jovi style

Whoa, we’re halfway there! So corny 🙂

Clarice the e-boot and I are halfway through our tenuous, six-week love / hate affair. When I put her on, it bugs the heck out of me, and when I take her off, my ankle feels like a noodle. 

But thanks to the awesome physical therapists at PCI in Cedar Rapids, I’m getting stronger and busting through all of the delicious scar tissue that has built up in my ankle over the last eight months. Every day is a step closer to running again, but now I have no excuse to avoid going to my basement to do laundry 🙁 Ha!

While I’ve been partially laid up, many people have come forward to encourage me. It makes me a little emotional to think about this. Not just that I have such great friends, but that I am this worked up about being mildly injured. There are people out there who are missing feet or arms or have never been able to walk a step, and here I am pouting about not being able to run for an entire two to three months. 

My friend Hallie told me that when she went through her ACL surgery, her doctor told her it was something of a grieving process, which makes a lot of sense. She’s been a constant force of “you can do this” over the last few weeks, and I’m so grateful for that!

Though I had to officially bow out of all 5 of the races I’d signed up for in May and June, I know doing so will give me a better chance at full recovery. Plus, I get to volunteer and enjoy watching my friends’ athletic successes over the summer.

I won’t say so much for the comeback I’d hoped for. Instead, I’ll say that the comeback will be doubly exciting in the fall!