Tali Liebenthal: Dancing Delay

It started In 6th grade. At dance my foot was hurting me.The doctor said it was fine, I just wore a little shoe, it eventually stopped hurting.  I went about my life and I still wasn’t dancing, just to make sure. After a year passed, I went back to the doctor to get a scan, just to clear me for doing P.E. and dance and stuff. But then the doctor said that the bone under my toe collapsed, which is something called Freiberg’s infarction — basically it’s where the whole bone just collapses, the bone crumbled.  It’s something that happens. I was in a cast for three weeks and then a boot four months and I got one of those scooters, which was really cool. I rode around school like that. And in that amount of time I went back to another doctor who did a scan and cleared me to walk again.  

My toe still does not bend, because the bone fused together. I can walk on it but it is not 100 percent. I am still able to do most things.  Eventually I went back to dancing, but because of Covid, my dance studio has been closed.