01/01/2022
Just incase you missed it on my personal page.
To my Zumba 💃🏻family past and present:
*PLEASE READ*
Happy New Years Eve! Boy has this been some year for us all. I’d like to say that I made it through this “not so easy” year with a smile but that wouldn’t true.
This has been the hardest year on me physically and mentally since I began teaching Zumba in 2014. Today is officially 1 year since I had my left foot operated on in the hopes of finally relieving the pain I had dealt with for 7 years and coming back to class with more vigor and excitement than ever before. Coming back to class to finally BE more, DO more, OFFER more for you guys.
However, what had unfolded over the past year was NOTHING like I had hoped for. I was off for 6 weeks healing and eventually came back to y’all in a chair. I might not have been able to dance but y’all know I could hoot, holler, and sing for you! Let’s fast forward to March when I had my right foot operated on. YES! I thought to myself. finally after this surgery everything is going to be AMAZING! I’m going to be pain free…. Watch out y’all Mama is BACK!
Sadly, it didn’t work like that. I came back in a chair again which then progressed to standing behind the chair, to slowly stepping side to side and moving my arms, to teaching a song or two to finally being back but sadly while the pain I had was gone another one presented itself. Defeat and sadness had kicked in. The doctor told me that it could take up to a year to see the results of surgery so I hung onto the that.
Let’s fast forward to August. My feet still weren’t right. Even doing daily house work made my feet extremely fatigued and sore. The depression was getting pretty bad.
I was so tired all of the time and my body felt like it was giving up on me. I had gone to the doctor and my thyroid was to blame for some of my issue and my other meds were adjusted.
My body had gained 50 lbs over the past year,
Which wasn’t good for my feet or my knees. I kept getting reoccurring sinus infections and ear pain and then later Covid in late September.
Finally feeling better from infection after infection and recovering from Covid I was ready to get myself together and back in the game until the week of thanksgiving when I twisted the wrong way and had a slight tear in my meniscus….. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!
So here I was again out of Zumba….. I feel like I hasn’t been there practically the entire year. I felt out of the loop, I felt like I had let you guys down. It’s so hard to sit on the sidelines when all you want to do is get up and dance but can’t. I felt bad for Linda and Teresa because again I was asking them to pick up the slack. And speaking of Linda Royer
and Teresa I will NEVER be able to repay them for stepping up this year and keeping classes going for you all! I’m so extremely proud of them. I’d also like to thank Erika George Miller, Kelly Landis, and Alicia Rockey for you guys have been an awesome support to Linda!
So with all of this being said….. I am going to take January away from Zumba completely. I have physically therapy 3 times a week starting next week so I’m hoping a month is all I’ll need to get back to class.
This hurts me so much to do because I haven’t been away from y’all in 7 years but I feel this is what’s best for me mentally and physically right now. I MUST give myself the downtime to heal and recharge in order to better so I’m able to come back and give to you guys! You know that saying you can’t pour from an empty cup? Well my cup is empty and I need to take this time to refill it and the time to recharge my batteries.
Please know that I love and appreciate each and every one of you more than you’ll ever know.
So I ask….please hang in there with me. Hang in there with Linda and Teresa. Continue to work towards your goals. Continue to come to class and love and support one another. We all know that our Zumba class is special. The last two years have been HARD. Don’t give up on yourselves or each other. What we need now more than ever is a place to escape, a way to let loose, a way to leave the anxieties of our current worldly situation at the door and just be in the moment where nothing else matters.
Please don’t be strangers! Send me pictures of class, send me messages. I’m going to miss you guys!
See y’all February 1st❤️
Happy NEW YEAR!
