Lots of things have happened since my last blog. I thought my recovery was going to be serious down time, HA. I feel like I’m back in the days before the Olympics. I start each day with school (love it, never thought I would get back) for 3 hours, then a quick lunch and then off to therapy for 3 hours. After therapy I try to get in a workout, then homework and rest to get ready for another day. WOW, my workouts have gotten pretty unique since I can’t use my leg much. Doing kickboxing, lots of upper body stuff, swimming, two days ago I got to bike for the first time, YES. One day last week I swam 4 miles. You should see me, I have this floaty thing that I hold between my knees and then just swim. My upper body is going to be crazy strong. My legs, a whole different story. I feel like my one thigh is like a marshmallow 
. I can’t wait til I can run again. I see my surgeon on Monday, I’m praying that I can finally lose my brace and crutches. Actually, I’ve gotten pretty good on the crutches. You should see me getting through airports and stuff. I gotta say though, I totally feel for anyone with any kind of a handicap. Most people are great, but others not so much. I’ve had airline stewardess’ treat me like a total pain in their butt cause they didn’t know what to do with my crutches, “Miss, you can’t take those on the plane”, like what do they expect me to do with them? At first I wasn’t supposed to put any pressure at all on my leg so I couldn’t walk without my crutches. I guess they expected me to hop down the aisle on the plane. I just keep reminding myself that it could be so much worse, I have to try and keep a sense of humor about it all. I never dreamed how bad I would miss working out. When I get better, watch out .
. Then I got to go to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. I was there working with McDonald’s as their Champion Kids Program ambassador. While I was in Vancouver, we had the launch of my “Got Milk” campaign. That was something that I had wanted to be a part of for years. I still can’t believe it. THEN, I got back from Vancouver and the next morning I had my surgery. I was so scared, but was very relieved when I found out the anasteseologist was a friend of our family. Everything went really good, except I went home with a knee that felt like it belonged to the jolly green giant. With all of the wrapping and stuff, it was ginormous. After my surgery, I have been staying close to home and not doing too much travel. Just last week I did my first speech at a University. It was USF in Tampa. I think it went pretty well considering I was so nervous I thought I was going to throw up. The audience was terrific (about 600 I think) and I got through it okay. Glad I got that under my belt cause then just night before last I did another one here close to home (around 3000, yikes) and I was nervous all over again. It was for Girl Scouts of America, what a great organization doing great things for girls (girl power). Oh, I almost forgot. Before the torch relay in Calgary, I went to the Cheersport Nationals in Atlanta. Had the time of my life. Getting to watch all of those cheerleaders in practice and also in competition was so exciting. Not lyin’, if it hadn’t of been for my knee I would have gotten out there with them in a heartbeat. So much fun and such great energy. Fun sport. Looking forward to working with cheer more.