Time and tide waits for no man

I am presently in week 3 after that nasty spill.
The neon yellow bruises are disappearing. The serious wound on the right palm has closed up. Only the right knee needs to completely dry up, which I figure will happen by tomorrow. Basically, I’m looking better !

You just need to break something to appreciate your body better. After some searching, I finally learnt that I had a fracture in the distal third of my clavicle. Clavicles are definitely difficult to immobilize. You can hardly do anything without involving it – it’s almost an accomplice to every action you take, or wish to make. Try dressing or undressing and you can see how much fun is that ! It always looks like you’re doing a Houdini stunt.

This was the first time I'd ever broken any part of my anatomy, and it’s amazing that with all of the stuff I've been up to my whole life, something overdue like this hadn’t happened earlier. Fortunately, it can be turned into a positive experience. In a one-handed world, you see things better from a wounded perspective. Well, as the saying goes : What doesn’t kill you will only make you stronger. After all, why do we fall down ? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up (another famous quote).

Nevertheless, it’s time to stop the mollycoddling.