Hope is a Good Thing
Posted in All Posts, Growing Up on 14. Apr, 2010
After running in my first half marathon, I suffered several injuries. My knee wasn’t tracking in the joint properly and was causing a lot of pain. So I went through several painful but effective months of rehab to fix the issue. When I tried to get back to running last month, my arch collapsed and had to be popped back in the right place. So for the past two weeks I’ve been slowly getting back to running.
Last night I went for a four mile run with another woman who I had just met that evening. We decided to take a shorter route than the other runners (who were going 6 miles). My reason for taking the shorter run was because I wanted to take it slow and not aggravate any of my healing injuries. As we got 3 minutes into our run, the woman tells me her reason for selecting the shorter route. She said, “I decided to take the shorter route cause I just found out I’m PREGNANT”.
Awesome.
I can’t get away from infertility even when I’m engaging in an activity that is supposed to relieve me of said stress.
The woman was perfectly nice about it, but I didn’t want to spend one of my first runs back listening to her talk about here pregnancy while I’m silently screaming and wanting to shove pine cones in my ears. The poor woman had no idea what she stepped into when she asked the socially polite question, “do you have kids”. I let the flood gates open. I gave her the whole run down. My entire fertility story, front to back in 15 minutes. It felt good to no longer keep my mouth shut when someone asks if I have children. It felt really good to be honest about who I am and what I am going through. It felt awesome to not let infertility have control over my life.
Her response was pretty prefect. She said “Wow, that’s an awesome story. I wish you the best of luck”. How great! No advice, no my sister’s, aunt’s cousin stories, no uncomfortable replies. A run that I thought at mile one was doomed for disaster turned out to be one of the best runs in a long time. That run really signifies the way I’m feeling right now. I have hope in every aspect of my life and it feels great.
I am glad she gave you the perfect response. I am new here, so I am unfamiliar with your story of infertility.
And, I totally admire you for running!
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It was brave of you to let her into your life and your story. I’m glad it went well. Yay for new friends.
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Glad you have hope, glad you are running (I have recently fallen off and been run over by that wagon…ugh) And most of all I am glad you have hope in yourself and a new friend
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I am proud of you for letting go and saying something that most are to afraid or embarrsed to talk about. You have always been the bravest person I know.
Thanks so much for visiting the blog and your kind comment.
I love making new friends. I’m so glad to have made internet friends like you!
Thanks MOM! Love you
Now that the weather is nice you will have to start running again. It is really hard to get motivated to for working out in the winter.