Hamstring

I pretend I don't know what aggravated my hamstring, but I do. I tried salsa (dancing) a couple nights ago when Sherri was visiting. I imagine swing the next night didn't help either.

It's so frustrating. Vacation gave it some time to recover, apparently, and if I'd just stayed off it for another month it might've been okay. But how can I stay off it when dancing is the only thing that keeps me happy?

The good news is that usually the blues don't seem to trigger it. So maybe if I ice really carefully I can keep dancing the blues and take a break from swing for the next two months and then it'll be okay.

This is a hard decision, but I've got to do it. I miss Tae Kwon Do, and I definitely can't do that the way things are; if I ever want to return to it, I have to lay off the leg.

So, my plan:

• Don't take Bill's class. Now's just not the time.
• Take a two month break from lindy, or take a one-year break further down the road. I'll take the former, thank you.
• Go see the physical therapist before I quit. Maybe he can give me some kind of compression bandage that'll let me keep doing it. Probably not, but worth a shot.
• Go to Blues Tuesday instead of the weekly Syndicate dance. That'll keep me relatively happy. (Is that irony? Blues keeping me happy, imagine that!)
• Consider taking up some sort of upper body exercise routine like hitting a bag.

If all of that doesn't work, I don't know what I'll do. I'm definitely not in shape as it is, and I can't get back in shape with my hamstring the way it is.

I just want to hit something. Like that guy who attacked me and caused this whole series of events.

(Please, no sympathy comments. I do appreciate them, but I don't, and right now I'm angry, not sad. If you have advice, that would be more helpful.)