Hi All!
Well, I had my 6 week post-surgical follow up the other day and my doctor's are pleased with my recovery and the progress I am making with my physical therapy.
At this appointment I asked my providers when I could return to being able to dance, and well then my ortho doc (really a 2nd yr student resident) asked "What type of dance?" and I told him "Ballet"........well let's just say..........the look on his young face was just priceless. He was speechless! He really didn't think a person who has just had a major THR surgery would ever even want to contemplate doing anything like ballet.
I told him, "I know, I know....,no more jumping, no more obviously big arabesques/attitudes" Grand battaments over 90d to the to the front and rear are out, no forced turn out of the operative leg, etc."
Well, he said, after thinking about it for a moment,....."Stay out of class at least through mid-November, and then o.k. to return to class (YAY!!!!)" "But be very careful!" he said (no kidding). He told me he is leaving it up to me to see what will and will not work.
My instructors have already told me they will make sure I do not get into trouble, they are just so happy to be having a guy back in class.
So, with Nutcracker season coming up by then, and then the holiday's fast upon us all after that, Realistically.........I am looking to go back to class at the beginning of the spring semester when classes start again on January 5th of 2015.
Keep on Dancin' ladies!!
