Be warned: getting up at speed from your couch is a dangerous activity.
I’ve had four lovely consolidation runs since I graduated and I’m looking forward to my first 5km run during the Budapest marathon weekend. Or at least I was.
I stupidly walked into the leg of the coffee table when I was rushing to make a cup of tea. I now have a very purple and swollen toe. I’m good at smashing toes and generally just bind the damaged one to the one next door and wait for it to get better, but now, as a fledgling runner, I’m very upset. What if the poor little thing is actually broken?
I rarely go to the doctor as I believe that, given time, most things get better themselves. I’m beginning to belatedly learn this isn’t necessarily true. Literally years of ignoring painful bursitis in my hip (that took just two steroid jabs to disappear), and 10 days with a broken hand - including a week of skiing - before I got an x-ray, should have taught me the error of my ways. They haven’t but the fear of not being able to run has.
So, it’s an x-ray tomorrow and fingers but not toes crossed for bruising but no fracture. Whatever happens, I think my dog will be secretly glad to have a break from all this running.
The moral of the story? Stay off the couch. 👩🏽⚕️😔
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Ouch. Good that you can laugh about it... here’s hoping you a speedy recovery so you can get out there again.
Reading this post, I couldn’t help but think that Mrs UNM should start being the brewer upper in the house just in case... when I mentioned it to her she only said two words, of course the second was “off”. Hopefully she will be able to live with the guilt if this happens to me!
Fingers crossed the X-ray shows it’s better than it could be.
Oh no! To be fair to the couch though, it’s more the desperate need for a cup of tea that’s to blame... which I do totally get. Fingers (and toes here) crossed for you, hope it’s just a bump that’ll quickly go down 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
Thank you all for your kind thoughts and understanding about the importance of tea. I'm delighted to report that it's not broken. The bruise is spectacular and doing its best to creep all the way to my ankle (I love purple but not so much on my skin) but once the pain subsides I'll be back on the streets - in the good way. Nothing for it now but to drink more tea. "IAIN..."
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