I realize that I haven’t updated my blog in some time now
and want to apologize for that.
I dislocated my shoulder for the 3rd time this
year a few weeks back and haven’t played in the past 3 matches. The team and I
decided to have surgery hoping to permanently stabilize my shoulder and prevent
any future problems. I had been planning on updating everyone when I had a
surgery date and was able to book an earlier flight home, as I assumed that I
would be having the surgery as quick as possible. However, as things progressed
I never really had a full grasp on what exactly was going to happen, and still
don’t. What I do know at the moment is that my surgery is scheduled for
November 6 and I will be flying home on November 15. I THINK that the surgery
will be an arthroscopic procedure so it should only keep me out of full
training for 3 months, but again I am still unclear about all of this. Even
getting those small bits of information has been an extremely frustrating
experience.
The only positive thing that has come from this process is
that I can now say I have dislocated my shoulder and put that shoulder back
into place all on my own, so that’s pretty awesome. At least I think so!
I wish I had more interesting news to write about but the
past few weeks have just consisted of my going to the gym and running 2x a day
as they have held me out of training fully with the team. So, I am really looking
forward to being back home! I’ll be forced to take some time off and can’t wait
to spend that time with everyone and eat some good pizza ha. I even think the
Chicago weather will be a relief after living here! Our last match was
postponed and moved to a turf field because the grass pitch at Degerfors had
frozen! It’s not even November!
Can’t wait to see everyone soon!
