Well, okay, the one who taught swimming and also taught Driver's Ed was nuts in a good way, but every one that was gym-only that I ever had was sadistic. I once had a large cut on the bottom of my foot, and the teacher told me that I still had to run the mile. If you weren't good enough to be on one of their teams, then you were garbage and they treated you like it, every day, and some of the things they said hurt more than that gash in my heel had.
Ironically, once I was out of school and didn't have anyone screaming insults at me, I discovered I actually enjoyed jogging. Except that I still got agonizing shin splints sometimes, like I had in PE class when I had to jog all through class. Saw an orthopedic specialist, and was told I had patella baja and I should *never* jog, it was *exactly* the *wrong* thing for me to do.
Gosh, do you think that maybe, just maybe, if even one of the teachers I'd complained about this pain to had told me I should see a doctor, instead of telling me to suck it up and not be a baby, that this might have been diagnosed earlier? That the doctor could have given me physical therapy to do instead of jogging, and I might have learned sooner that exercise doesn't *have* to be torture? I really enjoy weight lifting, bicycling, all sorts of things, now that I can actually exercise in ways that don't hurt in a bad way. |
