Finallyyyyyyyy!

Yesterday I found out some great news! I am cleared to get back on the ice. And better yet, I dont even have to play no contact i can go full out! I am so excited and so pumped so get back on my feet and get back in shape. This concussion took a toll on me especially since the doctor didnt want me moving at all, so i lost all that i worked for during preseason and the first weak of season. So i am more then glad to get back in there. However, I started getting sick on sat night, which really upsetted me because it just figures as soon as something gets better, something else has to go wrong. So i have been resting and trying to get rid of this cold. SO today during lifting, i started to feel really good, my voice is still off and i cough, but i feel so much better, i dont feel so dead anymore. Hopefully i can come back and bang out an awesome season and not get sick or injured anymore. I am so excited for this season to start for me finally, and hopefully on saturday my coach will play me. Doubtful, but im being very hopeful. Today we got our red helmets. I am so excited to be like 5 different color reds. Ha its redic, but the athletic person wanted us all red so here we are. I am so ready now to work harder and faster then i have ever before to make a huge come back!

Bye Bye politics

On Tuesday, I finally decided to drop my least favorite class, and the class that i am doing the worse in, POLITICS! Politics just doesn't seem to interest me. It's too much drama and debate for me to handle. Just do whats best for the people and i'll be happy. That's basically how i feel. So i thought i was actually going to do good on my last test in that class but it happens to be that i got a worse grade on it then i did on the first one, so there was no way i was going to pass it. I talked between my professor, my advisor and my dad, trying to figure out what was the best idea and what was a good decision, everyone said the same exact thing to me, It's up to you. It got frustrating and i just put it all in perspective and figured out that if i drop it, then i would have more time to work on my other classes and get those up so i can get my gpa up. So that was my final choice. Everyone agreed, which also made me happy about my decision. My professor was really nice about it and made me feel comfortable with doing it. However, since i dropped my politics class i will be below 26 credits that i need to get into my major so now i need to take a winter session class. I picked it out yesterday its gender, race and role stereotype online. So I am now very excited about winter session and doing a class online. Hopefully it will go good. :)

Cleared.....NOT!!!!!

On Friday I had a follow up doctors appt at Health Services. I thought for sure i was going to be getting cleared, seeing as i havent had symptoms in about two weeks. So as usual i went in at my appt time, got my blood pressure, heart rate, temp and eye check done. All the ladies know me there, seeing as i have been in and out of there so much since the beginning of last year. They looked right at me and said Cassie and back i went, after getting all my vitals done, i then had to sit back out in the waiting room as usual. Then the doctor came out and got me. He is so nice and was sure to make small talk with me. We got to the room and he went through all of his notes from my appt last week. He asked me if i have had any more symptoms, and i said no, and he made me do all of the concussion tests. I passed everything as usual for the past couple weeks and then we sat down and he started to talk about what he wanted to do. I was getting nervous when he kept pondering about what he should do, all i want to do is play hockey and its so hard when im not allowed out on the ice. He wont even let me practice, because hes afraid that im going to slip and fall and hit my head, but i have been playing hockey since i was 3, once your a hockey player you normally dont just slip and fall, you usually have to have someone contact you to fall over or go past your limit on something. And if i did fall i know to keep my head up, thats one thing that you learn when you are just starting out at hockey. He then told me that he doesnt want me on the ice still until the 13th, if that. I was devestated and of course cried my way back to my dorm. So here i am just hanging out trying my best to get better, and trying to stay in shape, but its just not the same.

Game 2

On sunday we had our second game of the season, as well of the weekend. Like the first one i am still unable to play. And like the first i took down face-offs for the game. We started the game off playing really badly. No one was making tape to tape passes and no one was moving their feet. It was so frustrating sitting up in the stands watching them, when my coach watches the tape of the game hes probably going to hear me screaming a lot. We played Castleton and easily couldve beat them, however, we failed to do that this time around. Coach was very angry inbetween the first and second periods, and was not to happy, so i stayed out of his way and just listened to him in the locker room. Our team was down, and wasn't too happy about the score and the way we were playing. After the second period the score was 4-2...They were by far out playing us. Our coach told us that if we get just one goal that it would put us back into the game and maybe we could end up winning. The girls game out playing better then the first two periods but still not the best they could and were still off and on with their playing quality. Its so hard to watch my team try hard but still lose. I just wanted to play, i tried everything to get out there but it just wasn't working. My mom came up for the game on Sunday with a couple other parents seeing as we had a parent-player reception right after the game. My dad met us at the reception, because he coaches and they had their last game of the season on Sunday. I was happy to see the both of them. My mom brought me up all sorts of stuff, including and back massager!

Game 1

Saturday we had our first game, my team played unbelievably good. I was so happy for them, but also so depressed that I couldn't play in the first game of the season. Lucky me and 3 other girls got to take stats and one girl video taped. I recorded face-offs, so easy. Anyways, we won our first game! They played very well and showed our coach that we could play. We received a lot of stupid penalties, which set us back a little bit more then it should've, but they still played well. My friend from home that i used to play with, now plays here with me, and she scored her first career goal, also the game winner! It was very exciting for her as a freshman to win her first game and score her first goal all in the same game. I was so excited for her, we have played together since we were about 11 years old so it's definitely nice to have someone here who I've known forever. Our team was so happy that we won our first game, especially after coming out 6-19 last year! It was so much fun to watch, they really played well. After our game most of the team went out with their parents and relatives, however my parents didnt come up so i just came back to my room and hung out until the guys game then went to support them. They lost unfortunately, but didnt play too bad.