Mental Health Awareness Day…
What does ‘Mental Health Awareness Day’ mean to you..? I can see much reference in the news / media these last couple of days with celebrities posting ‘touching social media posts’ such as ‘it’s okay not to be okay’… it got me thinking of my journey and where I find...
Phase 2 : Restricted weight bearing ‘… a little bit is more than nothing’
My next milestone : Mon 2nd Nov return to fracture clinic Felt amazing to have flown through Phase 1 : Non-weight bearing without any hiccups or any detrimental effects to the healing process. My immediate post-surgery goal was always to get through to Mon 21st Sept...
Post Op – Last week of non-weight bearing… ‘Burning brain cells’
I have got to say it does not matter how old or experienced you are clock watching / calendar watching just burns brain cells unnecessarily and adds weight to stress levels. No matter how much you tell yourself stop, you just cannot help yourself. I have tried hard...
Post Op – Week 5 “Tiny little milestones being met…”
One week to go until my fracture clinic appointment… ticking the days off as we go...!!! Mental Aspect… Positivity this week. A sports cliché I know and for me I challenge exactly what people mean when using the word ‘positivity’ because it is not always abundantly...
Post-Op : Week 4 “getting on my nerves”
Post Op – Week 4... “Getting on my nerves” Am now through week 4 post op and beginning to calendar watch with my Mon 21st Sept fracture clinic appointment on the horizon. Got to stop it otherwise time will drag on...!!!! Mental Aspect… Hands up those who think having...
Post Acetabular Fracture surgery: week 3
I guess this is where the bigger personal tests start to show themselves as I become less dependent upon medication and the monotony of not being able to walk and be mobile start to really impact what my day looks like both mentally and physically. Firstly, the mental...
Home: Start of Recovery and Rehab (weeks 1 – 2)
Phase : Post Op - 6 weeks non-weight bearing. Typically, these types of phases can be extremely monotonous… I know this from experience and with this immediate phase being a non-weight bearing requirement I know that this will certainly be the case. Monotony will...
Essex Highways potholes… Acetabular Fracture
So, during the lock down I envisaged that I would be able to spend more time concentrating on developing the lookmumonehand concept to see if an alternative employment / source of income can be driven. That focus on blogs, social media outreach and such like did...
Road miles into Track laps…
As the winter months begin to kick in there is no chance that I’ll be out and about on the local country roads as I did during the summer and autumn months. Call it risk mitigation or just plain body preservation I guess… the thought of trying to stay up on often damp...
‘Look Mum No Hands’…
A subtle gadget to consider to help mitigate risk when trying the 'look mum no hands' approach... At the time of writing this small blog we are being fed multiple news snippets about the dynamics of the crash that Chris Froome has had. I gather from an account from...