Pain Hurts

It's amazing to me just how easily our bodies can be broken. A week ago, when I went to the stunt clinic here at BYU, I pulled a muscle in my upper leg. I didn't really do anything for a week afterwards. I didn't do anything to make it heal, but I also didn't overly use it at all. Then on Monday, I went to my first tumbling class and it was awesome! I almost have a standing tuck and roundoff back on my own without a spot after only one lesson! (those are standing back flip and roundoff-backflip). Of course, doing these things re-injured my leg. The next day, I could barely stretch out at all. My splits are back to where they were when I was first learning how to do the splits at like age 7. They were absolutely terrible and it really got me frustrated. I have little under a month to prepare for try outs and now I am injured and can't do anything. Finally, which I should have done a week ago, I went to my awesomely amazing trainer (aka my Grandpa) and asked for help. He told me that I most likely have a high hamstring pull which means the muscles that connect my leg to the lower part of my pelvis have been overly worked and pulled. Treatment is heat, slow stretching, and rest.... Great... Now I have to take it easy during the month that I was planning on woking really hard to increase my flexibility and tumbling abilities. I've gone backwards rather than forwards.

All of this has made me realize just how fragile our bodies our. We have been entrusted with amazing bodies that can be used to do so many things. Most people have very few problems with their bodies. Yet it is so easy for us to cut ourselves, break a bone, pull a muscle, or get sick. We should be grateful of bodies that function properly. There are so many people who have been given bodies that do not function properly. We should be grateful for the bodies we have been given and seek to help those who cannot do everything for themselves.

Anyways, so I am in healing mode and keep hoping that my body will get better as fast as possible!