It is usually around this time with Dancing on Ice announcing next year’s contestants, that I would be making my predictions and examining what skills or previous experience they have, as well as trying to guess who they would be partnered with. However, currently I have still not been able to watch a whole ice dance since my injury. Earlier today I tried to watch Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson’s rhythm dance from The Filandia Trophy but had to switch it off after less than a minute as not only do I find ice dance videos now triggering (flashbacks, phantom pains, nausea) they also now leave me with a numb sense of blank sadness.
Obviously this blog was originally set-up to discuss figure skating Dancing on Ice but right now I’m not really able to do that. I realise the regular visitors to my site come for that content and I’m sorry, but that isn’t what you’re going to be getting for the foreseeable. I do however, still want to post on here and so from now on the content is likely to be quite random as I will just be writing about whatever I feel like at that moment. For some of you, who read these posts only because you know me personally, this might actually come as a relief because you won’t have to pretend anymore to really care about skating!
In my last post I wrote about my accident so I’m not gonna rehash what happened. In terms of rehab I am making progress but it is definitely a lot slower than I originally anticipated and I know that it will be a long time (if ever) before I am back on the rink. That’s painful and sad but in the midst of that, it does take the pressure off and the thought of skating again frankly makes me feel sick. I’m no longer wearing a splint, am able to walk upstairs bending my left leg quite well – it hurts but I can lift it sufficiently. walking downstairs my left leg is okay if I lead with that leg (and therefore don’t bend it) but trying to lead with my right leg and therefore bend my left leg going down, is incredibly slow and still very very painful. I am now going to church every Sunday thanks to friends giving me a lift and the same is true of midweek Bible study but other than that I can only really get out the house for a short walk up the street and back down the side of the park opposite where I live.
I am very blessed to still be able to work from home, as being stuck indoors for so long having something productive to do to distract me is imperative. I still haven’t managed to write any comedy material – more because I find I am a lot more tired than usual as it takes so much effort just to move about and I’m sleeping a lot more, rather than due to writer’s block. I am also lucky my improv classes are still running online so I have something fun with friends to look forward to each week so I’m still able to scratch my performing itch. I have or have had trials of pretty much every TV service and streaming service available and so could pretty much talk to you about almost any recent phenomena. it’s interesting to me that while I’m unable to bring myself to watch skating, as painful as it is the comedy world is reopening without me and many new ventures have begun in the North East and I haven’t been able to take part or attend, far and away the majority of programming I consume is comedy. They say that laughter heals all pain and for me that is very much true, it has always been what I turn to. Well, that and my faith obviously.
I’m not gonna write much more as I realise this post is already getting very long and very serious, but rest assured that the next post will be of a light and more upbeat nature. if you made it this far well done and thanks for reading. If you have any suggestions as to what you’d like to hear about feel free to let me know. Disclaimer they may well turn into a multitude of Taskmaster posts as, those of you who know me will know, that is pretty much my favourite programme after Dancing on Ice and something which I have a lot of opinions on!
