dancer on the knife

In the Spring Festival of 2020, I took my family back to my hometown for the New Year.Although I stayed in the city to develop after graduation, I still basically go back to my hometown during the Spring Festival. After all, this is the most important festival of the year.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the family is having a lively dinner in the upper hall, while the children are playing in the lower hall.The old house in the family was built on the hillside, so the lower hall was built with a lot of stones.For lighting and ventilation, a door is opened in the middle of the lower hall, which is usually open, but closed at night when it is windy and rainy.For the sake of safety, several wooden boards were also nailed to the threshold to prevent falling from here.

Although he was eating dinner, he still paid attention to the child, worried about doing something dangerous.Suddenly, I saw the child arrive at the door of the lower hall, holding the wooden boards nailed to the door and tending to climb up. He fell down at the door of the lower hall and hurriedly hugged the child.

After confirming the safety of the child, I felt a piercing pain at this time, and I couldn't get up for a while.The child was also frightened by my sudden rush just now. Although it hurts, I am relieved that the child is fine.Seeing me lying down on the ground and rubbing my feet constantly, the child came over and blew on the painful place where I fell, which felt very heart-warming.

After a while, I managed to get up, and then jumped on one foot to the dining table to continue eating.At first, I thought it was just a sprained foot, and it would be fine in a short time.On the first night of my injury, I had a big problem: I can’t touch the ground because my right foot is injured, how should I run?There are always more solutions than difficulties. Later, I will use the flat at home as a crutch, so that I can hop and run slowly on one foot. Of course, I will implement plan C under special circumstances.My family looked at me, and it was really incomprehensible, but they knew how I had been running for so many years, so they could only advise me to be careful.The hard work of running on one foot is a bit overwhelming, and I sweat after a while.But for me, running is a kind of belief and has nothing to do with the body, so it is worthwhile to work hard.

The most inconvenient thing after an injury is having to jump over several thresholds to go to the toilet, which is a very real problem.The toilet at home is an old-fashioned latrine in the countryside. Every time I go to the toilet, it is a kind of torture for me. Sometimes I really worry that I will fall into the toilet, which is really a great tragedy.

The next day my feet didn't improve at all, but swelled up again.I decided to go to the town hospital to take a picture to see if there was a fracture.At that time, the new crown pneumonia epidemic was at a high incidence period, and many places had already closed villages.I heard from people in the village that our village will be closed immediately because the excavators have all reached the village boundary.Before the village was closed, I hurried to the hospital. The child who sent me to the hospital even called to ask the child who grew up together and became the village chief. After all, we were also worried that we would not be able to come back if we wrote .Only when it was confirmed that it would not be sealed, did I go to the hospital with confidence.

When I went to the hospital to take an X-ray, it belonged to three phalanx fractures, which were quite serious.I was stunned, and I broke three phalanxes just by falling like that, which is really unacceptable.Originally, the doctor advised me to be hospitalized, but considering that this is the time of the epidemic and the Chinese New Year is coming, I decided to put on a plaster cast and go home to recuperate.

After watching the doctor put on the cast, one of the questions that immediately came to my mind was how to finish my daily running in the future?How long does it take to run normally?Because the movement became more difficult after the plaster was applied, I asked the doctor how long it would take to remove the plaster. In fact, it was counting the time to return to normal walking and running.The doctor said that the plaster cast can be removed in 6-8 weeks, but it takes about 3 months to walk normally, and it takes about half a year to fully recover.After listening to it, it was like five thunderbolts, and my mind went blank.Because this indicates that I will not be able to walk and run freely for a long time, which is unacceptable for a while, but the matter has come to this point, and there is no other way but to accept it.When I asked how I could recover faster, the doctor suggested that I should rest and not move around, and that it would be best to stay in the hospital for a period of time.I thought it was just a fracture, and there was no other problem, so after putting on the cast, I bought a toilet chair and rushed home immediately.

Before the crutches were in hand, daily life consisted of walking with a pole.After the crutches are put in place later, I feel that the whole person's sense of happiness has improved a lot, because walking is much more relaxed, and I no longer have to hop and walk like a kangaroo. In addition, running is much more convenient.

Sitting on the sofa every day, watching my family walk freely, I am extremely envious, which really confirms the saying: You don’t know the value of possession until you lose it.Since it is really inconvenient to be in my hometown, I decided to go back to Changsha.My parents hoped that I would stay, at least they could take care of me.But after thinking about it again and again, the sixth day of the Lunar New Year is still on the way back.

After returning to Changsha, affected by the epidemic, I could only stay at home every day.I continued to run on crutches at night, but my feet accidentally touched the wall and almost slipped and fell. I was so scared that I was covered in cold sweat, and my feet hurt so much that I had no choice but to give up.In the face of reality, I had to succumb. I was really worried about the second injury and it would take longer to recover. It would be a bit self-inflicted.For nearly eight years, my daily running life was forced to stop.I never thought I would stop running this way, knowing that I have overcome a lot of difficulties before and persisted.God's will tricks people, and he can only choose to accept it.

The days when I can't run are like sitting on pins and needles, and I just lie on the sofa every day, like a useless person.I feel that such a day is the darkest time of life. If I stop running, it is like my faith has collapsed and my life is incomplete. It makes people feel uncomfortable and lives like years.Sometimes the child wants to pull me to play together, but I can't do anything. The feeling of helplessness is heartbreaking.So, I look forward to the day when the plaster will be removed every day.Just one month later, I couldn't wait to remove the plaster cast. I saw that there was still a lot of congestion at the fracture site.I tried to touch the ground with my feet, but found that the pain was still painful, and my feet couldn't bear the force at all.

After the plaster cast was removed until half a month passed, I was able to walk half-slowly, but I still couldn't run.When I was able to walk completely, I tried to run, but I still couldn’t do it. After running for a while, I felt pain. I thought it would hurt my muscles and bones for 100 days.Not being able to run was the biggest punishment for myself. During that time, I felt listless.

When running becomes a part of the body, it must be uncomfortable if a person does not close his eyes or blink for a day.Running has also become my other pair of eyes.Nearly half a year later, I was able to run, but I still couldn't run fast.But it was much better than before, and finally ran.It's like the feeling of rain after a long drought, and people have become more energetic.

For many people, it is impossible to understand my paranoid running philosophy, but I don’t run to prove to others, let alone run for others, so whether others can understand is not my concern.If you follow your heart in everything, you can feel at ease and enjoy the pleasure of doing what you like.

Running, writing, and reading are the three carriages of life. Because of running, I also developed the habit of writing and reading every day, and then turned these habits into a way of life and a part of my body. Therefore, running is a top skill. There is a lot of meaning in life.It's like believing in a motto, you will integrate this motto into your life, penetrate into the bone marrow, become a quality, and even become your own endorsement.Running, this habit is the same for me. I run to the extreme and become a hardcore runner. I will not compare my muscular body with others, nor will I compare equipment, because I am not running for these things. If it is for these things, I would have already give up.Taking running as a light for me to move forward, guiding me not to get lost in the dark, and running is the nemesis of fear, cutting off all fear and letting myself move forward bravely.