Dancing With The Stars’ Melissa Rycroft is ready to return to the dance floor since her hairline fracture that had her sidelined during last week’s show.   Not only is she returning, but she will be doing two dances (Viennese waltz and the samba), not just one.  She tells Entertainment Tonight she has been working through the pain and has the help of a pain patch:

“This week, the difference with practice is that we can do things, and if it hurts a little bit, it’s okay,” Melissa says. “I mean, it’s fine — grit your teeth and move on.  “It makes it [the patch] tolerable, manageable,” she says.

Her partner Tony Dovolani says of this week’s practise:

“The cool thing is that we haven’t had to shorten any of our rehearsal,” Tony adds, noting that Melissa is handling the workouts and pressure “like a trooper. She’s really given me more than I expected this week.”

During last week’s elimination they were both very concerned that it was over for them.  Tony:

“We were looking at each other going, ‘Oh no, we don’t want to leave like this.’”

Although she was “in tears”  last week, tonight, she says: 

“we’ll be able to do everything,”

Will you be watching tonight?

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