Recovering from surgery as a dancer - L5 - S1 spinal fusion as a dancer
In my last post, I discussed my worries and concerns as a performer needing surgery to remove a bone tumour in my lower back, and the fact that everything was so unknown about how it would affect my body afterwards. As a Musical Theatre student, I have long days of training five days a week and a big part of this is made up of dance classes and other physical lessons, and so you really need your body to be in a good healthy condition in order to get the best out of your training. This was a huge factor into my anxieties about the surgery, because my surgeon told me that realistically it was going to be around 4-6 months before my body was recovered fully, and hearing that was really really worrying to me. I had a lot to think about... Should I defer the year and start it again in September? Should I push the surgery back until after my assessments were over and then have it? Or even worse, would I have to give up completely? My health was the most important thing to me at the time, but...