I pride myself on being reliable, which means turning up to teach my class come what may. This has proved tricky sometimes as I have had to deal with illness and injury. The worst was when I had an operation on my leg and was told not to dance for 6 weeks, I ignored the advice and ripped open the stitches - OUCH!
As I have become older arthritis has taken over my joints and some weeks it is really painful to move and I have had injuries to my knee and back which has made teaching tricky. I have tried teaching from a chair but you can't spend the entire lesson doing this, I have tried explaining to the class about the nature of the injury and saying I won't be doing such and such move because it will aggravate my problem but then you get to the point in the dance and do it anyway because you know the students are following you.
Teaching with the flu is especially horrible. You feel so ill and miserable but have to put on a brave/happy face because you have to make the class fun. It is especially annoying when you get students sending messages saying "not coming to the class tonight because its cold"
I can sympathise....I have dodgy knees but have to try and carry on regardless. Not sure most people understand unless they are teachers themselves!
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