CuriODDities! You will live forever in my heart. This show was so strange and silly, it was such a blast to create and perform. Endless thank you’s to @markpnw503 and @503evan for taking such amazing photos!!! 💜
Oh boy. Strap in, because this is a long one.
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A bit over three months ago I was completely bedridden, in the worst pain I’d ever experienced in my life. Sharp bone fragments shifting inside my arm, almost completely paralyzed from the elbow down. All I could do was desperately try to catch some sleep in the little slivers of time my pain meds offered slight relief. Today, things still aren’t exactly great, but they’re definitely not quite as bleak. Thanks to my incredible surgery team, my humerus is back in one piece, and, while I’m still a bit achy and tender, I’m generally living day to day in relative comfort. Even on bad days, the pain feels manageable. I can move my arm around however I please and it almost feels normal. My hand still doesn’t really function properly, or at all, but I’ve started seeing progress in my wrist. My return to aerial still feels a long ways away, but I’m taking dance classes, I’m remembering how it feels to move, to be alive. I still expect to spend many more months trying to keep up with all my physical therapy and occupational therapy appointments. I still expect more hard days. I still expect to cry at random, because injuries suck and recovery is both physically demanding, and emotionally taxing. It’s been a long road, and it remains be longer yet, but that hopeful glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel has finally begun to show its face. I don’t know when I will return to the air, but I know that it’ll be the second I’m physically able. Hopefully that will be soon, though I have no way of knowing at this point. Either way, you have not seen the last of me.
Been meaning to post this video from last week with a silly caption about how I’m “in my handstand era” or something but then on Saturday I broke my arm in a pretty major way so handstand era over for the time being I guess. Well goodbye for now. But you haven’t seen the last of me. I will return anon.
