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Hi patronites! I hope you had a good weekend and that you’re excited to start this week fresh 💪

I said I’d share some news before my trip last week, but then… I disappeared 🫠

Well… We were packing everything for the trip when…… I stepped wrong on the last step of my entryway staircase 😢 (which I’ve used several times for photos, so you already know it) 🥺 The staircase only has three steps, I never imagined it could cause me any trouble. But in my rush (and carelessness) it happened: I twisted my right foot completely inwards and had a very bad sprain. The pain was sooooo bad it made sweat run down my back, it was horrible 😭 (it’s so rare for me to even sweat like normally)… It took me an entire hour to recover and continue putting things in the car for the trip. Why do I kept my plans you may ask? Well, I could walk! Kind of 😅 Of course I had trouble and a lot of pain, but I could step with my right foot, so I thought it wouldn’t be anything serious… I decided to continue the trip, then 🥲 Amanda was already here at my house and the car was half ready after all 🫠

At the middle of the trip, when we stopped to buy food and something to drink, I couldn’t walk anymore. The pain was getting bigger and bigger, and so did my foot 😢 When we arrived (it’s a 5h trip), I talked to my physiotherapist who immediately contacted my orthopedist, and they both sent me for an X-ray. I never imagined I’d get an X-ray at the beach, but I did 🥲 and it turned out I had a bone avulsion (which apparently, I couldn’t escape that diagnosis this year 🥲)

Naturally, I got very sad, but I showed my X-ray to my friend Paulo (Lia’s orthopedic/neuro vet), and he said it would improve on its own, it would just take a while. So it kinda relieved me, and since I was already there, I decided to continue with the trip plans as much as possible 🙏 I did all the photoshoots that didn’t require shoes, and I even wore my orthopedic boot to one of them, so you could follow along with me 🥲 You better value these photoshoots!! You have no idea the amount of pain and tiredness required to finish them 😂😭😅 This full trip was filled with one setback after another, you have no idea 🥲 I got SO tired, especially after all the interaction and work together… 🫠

I returned home on Thursday, and on Friday I went to my orthopedist. Examining my foot, he said that in addition to the bone avulsion, I also tore my ligament. He then ordered an MRI, which I will have tomorrow. We need to see if it really tore (I hope it didn’t), and if it did, how many tore and the degree of the tear. Then I went to physiotherapy, and he did some measures to relieve the pain. I also started taking anti-inflammatories 🥺 Obviously, I spent the whole weekend very depressed. Ok, I was 100% miserable ❤️‍🩹

You already know by now, but skating was a HUGE support for my mental well-being and also gave me back a great sense of purpose in life. The doctor said that in the best-case scenario, I’ll be off for around 4-6 months, but it could be up to 12, depending on tomorrow’s results…

And that’s it, it’s been a week and I still can’t walk. I don’t even have an estimate of when I’ll be able to 😭 Currently I’m using an orthopedic boot and crutches 🥺 Breaking my foot wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card…

But I’m back home now and already working again. I’ll try my best to keep moving forward, step by step (well… with crutches for now 🥲). Thank you so much for your patience, love and support, it truly means the world to me 💜