Injury and recovery

How do you actually know if any sort of injury has had enough time to heal? Do you sit around and wait for time to do it's thing? Do you give up and wait for the next fad to hit you? or do you give it a go and risk taking a few steps backward....for a little while.....I seem to have done the latter recently.

I have the remnants of a cold, a hairline fracture to a rib and have been suffering with tendonitis. The weather yesterday evening looked so lovely that, although after a restless nights sleep that left me feeling very tired and I was already below par, I was motivated to get back out.

Su and I did the Down's again. The place was heaving...joggers, kite-flyers, dog-walkers, footy games, soft baller's, bar-b-q er's and landsailer's were about. Nobody can deny how lucky we are in Bristol to have such a space like that, which manages to hold so many activities and people without seeming crowded. The bushes just after seawalls have also had a mega haircut, obviously an attempt to help Bristol fire brigade with it's mainbeam (long story)

My right achilles was aching a bit to start with but eased off fairly quickly and athough I could feel the ache in my right side (where the HAIRLINE (mum) fracture is)
it didn't seem to be causing me any problems, exactly. I didn't however feel great. The weather was pretty muggy and the end tail of my cold was causing me a bit of a problem, along with the fact that due to various injuries I've lost a bit of fitness and sometimes, well you simply just don't feel great.

Today driving to work, the sun was out and I was listening to heart fm. Carwash by Rose Royce (could you get more 70's?) came on and that, coupled with a much needed restful night, has got to put you in a jolly frame of mind.....AND for the first time in a month no pain in my achilles, yey! However slightly concerned that the dull ache in my right side has turned into a sharp pain and seems to come from under, rather in, my ribs. I am hoping it's just a bruised muscle rather than a bruised liver. I need that liver for a bar-b-q on Friday. Oh and on Saturday :-)