Happy News! I'm back on the ice!

abrub
abrub Member Posts: 2,174 Member
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I went and tried curling again tonight (that crazy sport of throwing stones down the ice while your teammates sweep madly). I was able to comfortably throw a few stones and sweep some other stones - no pain! This means I'll be able to join my team in a major tourney in Cleveland in 10 days!

I'm not fully healed - still get shots of pain, but have been off the heavy pain meds since Friday. I finally feel like I'm truly on the mend.

Thought I'd share the good news!

Alice
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  • cinnamonsmile
    cinnamonsmile Member Posts: 1,187 Member
    #2
    I am so darn happy for
    I am so darn happy for you!!! Looks like you are coming out of the worst of it...The city north of me, is finishing some huge curling center and trying to get the Olympic Curling Team to practice there. So I know a little bit about curling.
    Anyway, I am just so relieved to hear you are on the mend!!
  • lynn1950
    lynn1950 Member Posts: 2,570
    #3
    Alice, This is such good
    Alice, This is such good news! xoxoxo Lynn
  • Rague
    Rague Member Posts: 3,653 Member
    #4
    TanFastic!
    It's a sport that I've always thought I'd like to try - well at least after I first learned about it after we moved to Puget Sound in 1982. I(t wason the Canadian TV.)
  • abrub
    abrub Member Posts: 2,174 Member
    #5
    Rague said:

    TanFastic!
    It's a sport that I've always thought I'd like to try - well at least after I first learned about it after we moved to Puget Sound in 1982. I(t wason the Canadian TV.)

    Seattle has a curling club
    Try it there during one of their Open Houses!
  • Rague
    Rague Member Posts: 3,653 Member
    #6
    abrub said:

    Seattle has a curling club
    Try it there during one of their Open Houses!

    Thanks! I would BUT
    Unfortunately we don't live on Whidbey Island anymore. We're in western South Dakota near the Black Hills now. Boys and I left there in Nov '94 to come here aand Hubby came in March 95 when he retired. Wonder if they have any around here? (Rapid City) Would be something to do during winter taht looks like it would be fun.
  • disneyfan2008
    disneyfan2008 Member Posts: 6,583 Member
    #7
    way to go...
    Denise

    way to go...

    Denise
  • VickiSam
    VickiSam Member Posts: 9,079 Member
    #8
    disneyfan2008 said:

    way to go...
    Denise

    way to go...

    Denise

    Congratulations .. Alice ---
    Enjoy .. and be happy!


    Vicki Sam
  • Angie2U
    Angie2U Member Posts: 2,991
    #9
    cinnamonsmile said:

    I am so darn happy for
    I am so darn happy for you!!! Looks like you are coming out of the worst of it...The city north of me, is finishing some huge curling center and trying to get the Olympic Curling Team to practice there. So I know a little bit about curling.
    Anyway, I am just so relieved to hear you are on the mend!!

    We love happy news! This is
    We love happy news! This is great Alice!
  • Letgonletgodb_1
    Letgonletgodb_1 Member Posts: 8
    #10
    VickiSam said:

    Congratulations .. Alice ---
    Enjoy .. and be happy!


    Vicki Sam

    AWESOME!!
    I am looking forward to the day I am able to all the sports stuff that I once did...
  • laughs_a_lot
    laughs_a_lot Member Posts: 1,368 Member
    #11
    When you said out on the ice
    I thought you meant that you were an ice skater. I am one. From the picture it looks like you do this in your shoes or maybe boots. None the less I know it has got to be some fun. I always said that if you fall on the ice, your owie gets immediately iced. Because of the timing of my treatment I did not miss a season of ice skating. Lucky me.
  • desertgirl947
    desertgirl947 Member Posts: 653 Member
    #12
    Always Good
    It always is good when any of us can resume activities we were doing before we had to take time off. It makes it seem that life is beginning to return to normal.
  • abrub
    abrub Member Posts: 2,174 Member
    #13
    Rague said:

    Thanks! I would BUT
    Unfortunately we don't live on Whidbey Island anymore. We're in western South Dakota near the Black Hills now. Boys and I left there in Nov '94 to come here aand Hubby came in March 95 when he retired. Wonder if they have any around here? (Rapid City) Would be something to do during winter taht looks like it would be fun.

    There is curling in Rapid City, SD!
    Here you go: http://rushmorecurling.com/ Curling in Rapid City, SD, and you still have a few days to sign up for the season!

    Let's meet up in a bonspiel! (A competition!)
  • abrub
    abrub Member Posts: 2,174 Member
    #14
    laughs_a_lot said:

    When you said out on the ice
    I thought you meant that you were an ice skater. I am one. From the picture it looks like you do this in your shoes or maybe boots. None the less I know it has got to be some fun. I always said that if you fall on the ice, your owie gets immediately iced. Because of the timing of my treatment I did not miss a season of ice skating. Lucky me.

    No, we use special shoes
    When we are sweeping, we have rubber gripper soles on both our feet to give us stability on the ice. However, for throwing, I remove the rubber gripper on my left shoe, to reveal a Teflon sole! I push out with my right foot, resting and sliding on my left (Teflon) foot, and the momentum pushes both me and the stone out. I then release the stone with a twist to make it turn in the requested direction. There is a captain ("Skip") at the other end of the ice who has determined what type of stone (hard, light) I should throw, how I should aim it, and how I should make it curl.

    We all (4 of us) rotate through the positions, each throwing our 2 stones opposite our "opposites" on the other team. Then we sweep for the other 3 people on our team. The Skip doesn't sweep with the rest of us, tho she throws her 2 stones, while one of the others on the team (the "Vice") stands at the far end telling the skip what to do.

    It's fun and lots of strategy!

    I missed one season of curling during my treatment for appendix cancer. Oxaliplatin in my chemo makes you incredibly cold sensitive - can't breathe cool air or drink cold beverages. Curling was out.
  • Noel
    Noel Member Posts: 3,095 Member
    #15
    Letgonletgodb_1 said:

    AWESOME!!
    I am looking forward to the day I am able to all the sports stuff that I once did...

    This is fantastic! I am so
    This is fantastic! I am so happy for you Alice!
  • Angie2U
    Angie2U Member Posts: 2,991
    #16
    abrub said:

    No, we use special shoes
    When we are sweeping, we have rubber gripper soles on both our feet to give us stability on the ice. However, for throwing, I remove the rubber gripper on my left shoe, to reveal a Teflon sole! I push out with my right foot, resting and sliding on my left (Teflon) foot, and the momentum pushes both me and the stone out. I then release the stone with a twist to make it turn in the requested direction. There is a captain ("Skip") at the other end of the ice who has determined what type of stone (hard, light) I should throw, how I should aim it, and how I should make it curl.

    We all (4 of us) rotate through the positions, each throwing our 2 stones opposite our "opposites" on the other team. Then we sweep for the other 3 people on our team. The Skip doesn't sweep with the rest of us, tho she throws her 2 stones, while one of the others on the team (the "Vice") stands at the far end telling the skip what to do.

    It's fun and lots of strategy!

    I missed one season of curling during my treatment for appendix cancer. Oxaliplatin in my chemo makes you incredibly cold sensitive - can't breathe cool air or drink cold beverages. Curling was out.

    We've watched this on tv.
    We've watched this on tv. Looks like fun!
  • Rague
    Rague Member Posts: 3,653 Member
    #17
    abrub said:

    There is curling in Rapid City, SD!
    Here you go: http://rushmorecurling.com/ Curling in Rapid City, SD, and you still have a few days to sign up for the season!

    Let's meet up in a bonspiel! (A competition!)

    Thanks!
    I sent an e-mail!

    If I can't be involved this year, at least I know 'it's ' here and can try for next year.
  • Rague
    Rague Member Posts: 3,653 Member
    #18
    laughs_a_lot said:

    When you said out on the ice
    I thought you meant that you were an ice skater. I am one. From the picture it looks like you do this in your shoes or maybe boots. None the less I know it has got to be some fun. I always said that if you fall on the ice, your owie gets immediately iced. Because of the timing of my treatment I did not miss a season of ice skating. Lucky me.

    Ice. fishing
    When I read "on the ice" - I thought she'd be doing ice fishing. She kayaks so my first thought went to water/fishing.
  • Kristin N
    Kristin N Member Posts: 1,968 Member
    #19
    Rague said:

    Ice. fishing
    When I read "on the ice" - I thought she'd be doing ice fishing. She kayaks so my first thought went to water/fishing.

    This is so cool! WTG Alice!
    This is so cool! WTG Alice!
  • dianehelen
    dianehelen Member Posts: 131
    #20
    I don't know you well, just
    I don't know you well, just joined yesterday, but you were so kind to offer support on my frantic intro post.

    It's nice to come here and read something good for a change.

    I love curling, it's one of the sports i look for in the winter Olympics

    All the very very best to you!
  • Kylez
    Kylez Member Posts: 3,761 Member
    #21
    disneyfan2008 said:

    way to go...
    Denise

    way to go...

    Denise

    Awesome! Have a great time!

    Awesome! Have a great time!

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