happy happy!

I scrimmaged yesterday with my knee brace on and it worked!  My knee was fine.  BIG RELIEF.  I think I might need to buy a new brace, though; this one is kinda falling apart and is a little small.

Heard back from the plate company; they want me to send them the plate to see if it would be covered under warranty.  On the one hand, I understand that; on the other, I can't be without my skates for whatever extended period of time it would take them to look at it.

I was trying to deny it by covering it with a thick gloss polyurethane, but

my knee is not better.

Last Thursday after scrimmage I got home and was afraid to walk lest my knee just fail underneath me.

I have one more trick to try (wearing my brace to practice) but if that doesn't work....I've got nothing.

We'll see.

Upcoming stuff and whatnot

ECDX is coming up, and if I want to do a fun challenge bout, I'll have to start thinking about it soon.

Hopefully my team will get one of the non-fun challenge bouts.  (When I say "non-fun", I mean, like, not one of the "stars vs. stripes" or whatever bouts.) 

Scrimmaged last night - jammed twice.  Didn't break the pack either time but I did not stop moving my feet and I did not give up, which I guess counts for something.  I got a bruise on my hand from my wrist guard; ow.

Like I said, ow.

In other news, remember all the trouble I had last year with my left skate plate and my toestop?  IT'S HAPPENING WITH THE RIGHT ONE NOW.  Whee.  I'm gonna have to write to the company. I mean, I love the plates otherwise; they're light and awesome and all that, but it's a pain.

I've been using the small wheels on my skates, too, and it seems to be going pretty well.  I can keep up with the packs and whatnot.  I have a little bit more of an issue with plow stops, but that's nothing that practice won't cure.  My leaguemates are intrigued by them; one friend of mine says they're Fisher-Price wheels.

wheeeeeeee yay

oh derby, I missed you so.

I'm definitely not where I was before, but I'll work on it.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

So yesterday I practiced with the B team; yay!  I definitely should've kept up with off-skates workouts; I could tell I was winded and whatnot. 

I also wasn't as effective as I like to be during scrimmage, but that'll come in time.

IT WAS SO AWESOME TO BE BACK ZOMFG.  I missed having people run into me.  I missed spinning around blockers to get past them. I missed hanging with my friends. 

:)

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!

I totally lost any sort of fitness I might have had once upon a time
my hip really started to bug me at one point
BUT MY KNEE WAS FINE AND I AM BACK YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

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