Achilles tendon injury

Two months ago I hurt my both feet; the ankles. Now they've healed, but my feet still aches. The calves of my feet plus heels are in bad condition. I had a doctor check my feet yesterday and I finally got an diagnosis; my achilles tendons are inflammated. Oh my... :O No wonder I have trouble with walking. I can't even walk barefoot at home; I must use indoor shoes, but still it aches. Sleeping without drugs is painful, fortunately I'm now on drug cure to normalize the irritation on the achilles tendons. And it helps for the pain too.

The treatment will cost a lot. And take time. I'm not happy with this, but it's a relief to know what I can do to help my feet heal. No tennis and running in weeks (or even months)... :( But calm exercise at the gym can be possible in a short time, maybe even next week. That means (muscle) strenght training only for the upper body; some weight lifting.

Physical therapy will be included to my treatment, but me and my parents haven't decided which medical company we want to use for this. The price of the treatment and the physiotherapists' knowledge of massaging and healing feet are in priority. We should find a good therapist soon.

I've never had a sports injury on this level of injury. Three years ago I sprained my foot twice in 2 months, but I overcame that pretty fast and easily; just by resting and not burden it too much. It was (and is still) important to think of what to wear; sneakers are looking great on but are bad for the feet...

Now it's just to try to think positive about this; I have a good reason to take it easy and do things that can be as funny as exercising. I can spend more time to watch movies, read, write, paint my nails, be with my family and much more. This weekend I'll mostly be inside, but eventually I can take short, but calm, walks to parks; sunbath in the early spring. I want to walk outside and take photos of the coming spring.

Right now we still have snow on the ground, but soon it will melt. Hopefully :)

Beautiful music

Found this actually on Spotify today, but here's a Youtube clip instead. I think Birdy is making very good music, at least for being a 17 years old girl. She has a great future in the music world and I'm her fan already <3  The song makes me relaxed, hope you like it!
 

A moment that made me cry happy tears

 Since I last wrote I've been sick twice, worked with kids, read a lot and started working out at a "new" gym. Much has happened yeah... What I'm really here to write about is this;

I want to share one particular experience that happened last week. It was after work when I went to the bus stop to take a bus home from working at a kindergarten. After a moment a woman with a little girl came. I listened to their talk and recognized the language as Spanish, Portuguese or Italian. I wasn't sure, so I listened further, took courage and asked in SPANISH if they were talking Spanish; "Hablan español?" and she looked surprised and answered yes, they are. Then she explained that she and her daughter are both living in Finland; the daughter is Spanish-Finnish. All this in Spanish really. She talked very fast, so it felt difficult to understand, but I managed, in some way :D The woman was in a good mood, but she seemed very surprised, that I was talking Spanish with her. That's very unusual at the streets in Finland, where the main languages are Finnish and Swedish. It was funny for myself to use the foreign language, which I've studied in school for years. It was my first time to use it in Finland; spontaneously talking Spanish to a stranger.

The moment, just a few minutes, talking to this stranger made me feel so, so happy that I wanted to cry. I didn't have much time to explain why I was speaking Spanish with her; I just told her that I understood some of what they were talking; the woman and her little daughter, before I interrupted them. And that I've studied the language in school. Then the bus came; we all took the same one. We stepped inside and sat apart from each other; me in the back and they in the front of the bus. No words were exchanged between us anymore.

But. Another. Thing. Happened.

Five minutes later, when they got off the bus they saw me still sitting in the back. The little girl smiled and waved to me. The woman laughed a bit and waved too. My heart melted at the view and I smiled and waved back to them. That thing made me cry, cry happy tears, but just a bit :') I don't know them and still they affected me in a good way. Weird isn't it? I'm so proud of myself not being a coward; I truly managed to speak Spanish, even though I think I made some grammatical errors. But that doesn't matter, she understood me anyway ;)

The lesson is to seek those happy little things in life. Those that makes you happy and think "I love life". This day I found that. I smiled the rest of the bus trip home. And I thought; "I want to do that again. Next time I hear someone speak Spanish I'll be friendly and small talk with them."

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My birthday!! :D

Today is my birthday! Yay :D One year older, how does it feel? It's not a big difference. Without telling my age, I must say I am not a teenager anymore; I'm a young adult instead. And no, I didn't turn 18, I'm older than that!

I came home from a tennis camp yesterday. It was an amazing weekend! The company was great :) I played in a group of 8 players including me. I've played for 9 years, but I still have some things to develop; I was there to get some feedback and to become a better player. There was an old coach who joked about almost everything and some of the jokes were in fact funny, after becoming used to his humor. He had been a tennis coach for 40 years, so I trusted him.

We played 10 hours tennis during 42 hours ( = under two days). It was tough workout, but I loved it anyway. I couldn't push myself to 100% the last day, 'cause my ankles ached at every footstep at the last two hours' training. So I had to interrupt the exercise. I was disappointed with my bodys' reaction, but I kept telling myself that this was something I couldn't do anything about. Only take a few days of rest. Luckily this happened on the last day and not in the beginning of the tennis camp :)

Besides the ankles my body is sore. Stretching doesn't help much. Today I'm not gonna celebrate myself in a wild way, I'll do it in near future with my friends, but today I'm surrounded by family :)


PS: I tested a new drink two nights ago. Well, it's only new for me. It's "Blue Angel", and it's good ;)


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Day 15: Write about your biggest fears

My biggest fears are many, but the most horrible thing would be that someone I love dies. Of course everyone dies eventually, but if the person dies because of an accident or in young age it would be so hard for the ones that stand close to the victim. To lose someone important; it would crush me totally.

Because of my (former) eating problems and my healthy targets in life, I still get some thoughts about illnesses I could somehow get in the future, if I'm not taking care of myself. For example I've had fears of getting diabetes type 2, sometimes I still think about it. But I'm putting the thoughts away, I can't fall for the same mistakes again.

A very common fear I have is the fear of heights. I must confess, I haven't been up in the Eiffel tower, in Paris, but I've stood next to it, at the ground.

I'm scared of dying young; not getting the chance to fall in love and start a family, to grow old with someone and so on.

I'm afraid of having chronic pain and how it would affect my life.

Well, there you go. I'm scared of many things, mostly about stuff that happens in the future, things I can't do much about. I think this is common; being afraid about stuff you can't change because they haven't even happened yet.

Driving, Diary and Dondition - No, I mean Condition! ;)

Today I've been driving in the traffic with my teacher. It was my fourth time sitting in front of the steering wheel. I felt very nervous before the lesson, 'cause I haven't been driving since last week of December. But it went very well, yay! :D I was totally focused on driving and had no time making eye contact with the teacher (the last mentioned was unusual). I'll have my next lesson in two days.

I'm impressed that I've been writing my (dear) diary almost every day since New Years Eve. How have I found the time to write every night? I don't know. Probably I've just got less time to sleep, hehe :) One of my very best friends writes every night in her diary and she's been doing it for years! Cool huh? I've wondered how she can manage to do it, but I think it becomes a routine after a while. A routine that would be a disappointment to break. The advantage comes later; it's nice to check what happened at which time of the life. For example if there's been trouble at some point, it can be easy to solve it if I've been writing down my thoughts.

Mentally I've felt well lately, physically not really. I've had the weird pain in my stomach and back brief moments at least twice a week. I've been so desperate, that I've borrowed a book about chronic pain. I don't know if I'm gonna read it, but let's see. Painkillers don't seem to help, neither doctors; they don't know what's wrong with me. Frustrating! :( My condition seems to be great, but it feels not like that. Maybe it's just my stupid way of reacting on stress; I stress about stuff and about having pain and the result is that I get more pain. It's complicated, I don't know what to believe...

I've finally learned to properly post a Youtube video here! My friend showed me that, thanks :)
Here's a great song that I love, it's groovy and the lyrics has a message. It's the "one life" that means so much to me too :)

A new year has begun

 It's been some time since I last wrote, but I really needed some time off from writing and just get the Christmas feeling together with them I love. I've been spending the holiday at home with family and friends. Monday 31th December, New Years Eve, I partied together with my family (except for my big brother), Hanna nr. 2 and a guy named J. and his parents. It wasn't a big party or a "drinking party" but I enjoyed myself anyway. Hanna stayed over the night and we didn't go to sleep until 4.27 a.m.

I've had plenty of time to play recorder. Did I tell you that I performed with my big brother at one of my graduation parties? :)

Christmas did also go well. I got a few presents, but I get the best feeling of giving away presents. Seeing the (hopefully glad) persons open them and their faces lit up. When I was young I didn't realize it, but now I do. Christmas is better than birthdays, 'cause now everyone who's in the same room get to open presents at the same time.

Some of the flowers I got at my graduation.

 This week I've finally got some work again. I've been searching a long time for short part time jobs at kindergartens. So guess if I was happy to get work for two days this week? Yes. Even though it was tough taking care of children, I want more experience.

In a few days my family's Christmas holiday ends and they will go back to school and work. I'm going to study some psychology, hopefully work and learn how to drive a car. On the weekend me and Hanna nr. 2 will leave to another city to meet our friend S. for two days. Hopefully it'll be fun! I've never been there, so I'm a little excited. Only one week to go! :)

By the way, the photos are taken a month ago by myself. A little random pics but it doesn't matter :)