Alive 'n kicking (well not quite...yet!)

Hey everyone,

So yeah, I'm doing a bit better now : ) I stayed at my parents house till Wednesday night and then they drove me back to my place. It is still painful to sit, but it's getting a bit better day by day. I can walk for a bit as well, which is awesome. Today I even went outside for 40 min walk and carried my grocery store purchases to home, hehe! So i'm making progress :)

Next week I'm getting someone to check my back, so hopefully it will be a lot better then! We'll see, we'll see....

On 3rd-5th of October are the Finnish Nationals in Lahti. The whole Fitness Expo is a nice event, and this year it's gonna be for 3 whole days. We're gonna get Dennis Wolf there and all... I'm sure it's gonna be nice. I hope i'll be able to travel there, probably going to go just for one day though, to see the finals on Sunday.
It's gonna be great to see some friends there as well :)

And last, but not least...
Everyone who sent me e-mails and recovery wishes through my blog or other ways;
Thank you...Thank you so much. You guys have truly made me feel that people do care about me and want all the best for me. I cannot say, how much warmer i've felt in my heart cos of all your messages. So Thank you again, I love each and every one of you <3

XoXo,
Eva

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.... I've been really unfortunate in the past month....

Yesterday, on Saturday, I was heading to the gym, to do a pretty light workout. Started with smith squats, really focused movement, steady, easily.... 1st set...2nd set..... 3rd set..... 4th set and 4th rep...I heard an unbeliavably huge crack sound from my lower back, and when i kinda realized that, i was hysterically crying in shock and lying on the floor, body in huge pain, unable to move.
"Can I train anymore ever again? Am I paralyzed? What happened to me?" ..that kind of stuff came to my mind immediately.... a friend of mine was luckily at the gym so she rushed to me immediately... I was kinda in shock all the time..... luckily i could feel my legs.

Someone called the ambulance and the guys took me with a strecher to the ambulance and drove to the emergency hospital.
That friend of mine came with me, and took care of me all the time, which i truly appreciate.

X-rays, lots and lots of painkillers etc..... Luckily no broken bones, thank God for that. But it's incredibly painful to move... I lied on the bed for hours before with some help, i struggled and managed to stand up, but couldn't do that for long...
So they noticed i'd need to stay longer to be watched for, so they transferred me to another hospital which i spent last night....

Cos of no disc problems or broken bones, they let me go home today. So i'm at my parents house now....

Being in the hospital made me see how much car accidents etc there are daily, and how many people are badly injures and sick....It's terrible, and i have no words for it. That's what makes you think about life, and how you should be thankful to be healthy and able to walk, and not whine about lil things that honestly don't matter...

I'm waiting for the time, that i'm able to stand, walk and sit like normally.....
I wish i'll be able to train.
I wish, i'll be normal again soon.

Love,
Eva

Asian food

Howdy !

Last week was another rest week for me (doc's order). I was again, reaally bored at times, but luckily I got to meet some of my friends!! I've been really missing that, just hanging out with friends, with no hurry etc...

I also went to the city with my mom. We went to shopping a bit, then went to listen to few of the Finland's famous jazz pianists, Lenni-Kalle Taipale and Iiro Rantala. As I am a pianist myself, I just love to sit down, and listen to a good player to play beautiful tunes.
After that, we went to eat to a chinese lunch buffet.... Really good, even though i really didn't feel like eating, cos i've caught some kind of virus..oh well! But actually it's better not to eat that much now though, cos i ain't exercising...

On Friday I met my friend Jarkko, and we went to eat some sushi, then just hung out in the city, bought some lil stuff and then we went to the movies to see The Love Guru (only one coming in the night time that day),, and gosh what a retarded movie it was!!... This one chick next to us was laughing at every thing in the movie , and imitating what the actors were saying. LOL how annoying!
I had a great time with my friend <3>

Today I finally thought i'd feel good enough to try and go to the gym. I trained REALLY lightly, cos I hav to ease back to training, and have to avoid every pain that could come, and of course, if i'm still having the virus in my body. So i just did light standing db bicep curls, seated db curls, cable hammer curls, pushdowns, tricep machine, tried some arnold presses with dumbells and lateral raises as superset. Still shouldn't really do any presses...




In the evening I met my friend Jukka, and we went to eat sushi again (haha I just love that food! Brings back good memories from my visits to Japan). It's always so cute when people's learning to eat with chopsticks! ;-)

These stuff what's been happening to me, have made me really think about stuff and life in general.... What stuff is important and what do i want to achieve. As you can tell, these times can be really depressing, but thankfully I have dear friends around me, my family, and of course you guys, who read my blog, as well.

So have a great week everyone, train hard and enjoy your life :)

XoXo,
Eva

hey hey

Hey everyone,

How you all been? Hopefully good! Autumn is coming, and you can totally tell it by looking outside... raining and raining all day long.. sucks.. :( I don't want the winter to come!

Last week went "surprisingly fast"... even if i just rested for 8 days.. Man it was killing me!! No sports for me during that time... What did I do? Haha, NOTHING! well almost nothing... I met my mom and we drove to the mall to find me some clothes, but damn it was a hard mission to do! Especially when going to this nice shop, Zara.... tried to find me a jacket and it went like this "L... too small.. " "XL? ugh, so tight around the shoulders"... "XXL!? Nopes, doesn't fit at all"... Gosh, i just started to laugh even though i was same time pretty pissed off cos i wanted to get some clothes, haha!

Then I've been watching dvd seasons, like Buffy.. don't even know how many times i've watched the whole series already?! I need new dvd's ;-)
And oh,, I also dyed my hair to black, what do you guys think? :)

Then I also got some stuff from my sponsor Force Sports Nutrition, Thank you guys!! I need mah proteins!!



I didn't get to go to the movies yet though.... Hopefully later on !

I went to train my legs lightly on sat , still a bit of pain type of feeling in the hip flexor,, but the workout went pretty well . On Sunday things went differently; first, the workout started well, but then all of suddenly my shoulders decided, that I still need more rest... So i had to stop , and i drove immediately home...
So still more rest for me... I know couple of weeks won't kill me, and I won't lose muscle mass in that time,(even though it feels like it) ,but DAMMIT it feels like hell mentally!!! I wish i'd be just able to take off, and go on a vacation or something to be able to get my mind off the gym and everything, to be able to think about other important things in life.
I just love bbing so much it's so hard for me to not to be able to train...

Well..anyways, I met the famous Finnish bber Mika Nyyssölä in the gym though. It was great to meet him again, so of course we had to take a pic together ;-)
He seems to be improving all the time, and he's looking great at the moment, even if he's in the off-season! I wish all the best to Mika, and hope that we'll be able to train together again someday when i'm back to the gym :) (go check out Mika's blog and his awesome artwork at http://bisley.pakkotoisto.com )



I also wanted to thank you guys for sending me all the get well-emails and such!! it really means a lot to me to know how many people there are supporting me and really hoping for my best. I truly appreciate it. Thank you so much for trying to cheer me up, you know who you are! *MWAH* <3

XoXo,
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