04-07-2006, 07:58 PM
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#1 | | Just Joined
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| Recovering from mono, lost my fencing abilities, a little irritated
**** Mono
Never get it | 
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04-08-2006, 12:32 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2003
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| If you lost your fencing abilities from mono, then you never really had any.
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04-08-2006, 01:32 PM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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Originally Posted by D+F+P=Hadouken! If you lost your fencing abilities from mono, then you never really had any. | And similarly if you last your tact for whatever reason you had none? Well, at least one of these is true... | |
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04-08-2006, 01:33 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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| Often long illnesses cause a loss of ability and/or stamina, etc. The trick is to just get back on the horse, it'll come back faster than when you had to learn it the first time.
Good luck! | |
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04-08-2006, 09:11 PM
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#5 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Pennsylvania
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| Recovery Period
The important thing is to realize with mono is that it will affect your energy levels, with good days and bad days, for several weeks.
Don't be discouraged. It's unlikely you really lost any skills, but we all get sloppy when fatigued. Just give it time.
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04-08-2006, 09:32 PM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Santa Ana ,CA
Posts: 262
| this competitive season, I've had lots of serious health challenges.
It's very frustrating being sidelined. I want to fence! But I'm stuck being a support to team members and fencing pals. At least I get to watch fencing.
Maybe next week, I'll return to my conditioning and lessons with my coach.
It's taking baby steps back, but I see my goal in sight.
As I tell my team members, I will crawl from the grave to fence (or dance)!
Don't give up Prateek73.
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04-08-2006, 09:43 PM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Chelmsford, MA
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| Prateek73,
I feel your pain.. I'm just getting over mono myself... still go narcaleptic every once in a while...
After I got over the initial tonsil swollen hell that is mono, but still couldn't fence (yay for enlarged spleen), but I could take lessons. I took a couple while waiting to be able to fence again, and I feel like that helped me stay sharper than I would have if I just stayed on the couch...
granted, it doesn't help you now, but if you get stuck in a similar situation again... take a lesson or two... it helps.
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04-09-2006, 12:56 AM
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#8 | | Just Joined
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| I know how you feel. I just got my appendix taken out, and now I'm all weak and the doctor ordered no sports for 2 weeks. If I was the kind of guy who used non-monkey based smilies, then I would definately be posting a few frowny faces right about now. Oh well.
Last edited by Cpt X, FencrExtraordinare; 04-09-2006 at 01:03 AM.
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04-09-2006, 12:58 AM
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#9 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Apr 2006
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| A good side to a break?
Although, I suppose it gave me a chance to take a step back and study fencing from a distant and intellectual sort of way. I recommend the Big Book of Fencing for all downtime review. | |
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04-09-2006, 09:18 AM
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 436
| It feels like you're standing on the wall at recess, watching all the other kids play, doesn't it?
Here's to your recovery. It's a hard place to be in right now, recovering. | |
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04-09-2006, 10:27 AM
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#11 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Viva Nashvegas.
Posts: 2,175
| Mono does suck. My doctors made me say out of fencing for about a month and a half with it, then i broke my wrist. So that was another 6 weeks not fencing.
You don't really lose your "abilities", but you do feel rusty when you start up again. It kinda feels all brand new.
Best thing is to just work through it. It will all come back pretty fast.
Good Luck. Feel Better. I would suggest eatting a lot of icecream.
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04-09-2006, 11:09 AM
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#12 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: South Carolina über Alles
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Originally Posted by Prateek73 **** Mono
Never get it | Just give yourself some time, you'll get to where you are in no time...just make sure your spleen doesn't rupture.
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