Touch of the blahs

I have been off the bike for six weeks now due to an ankle break - I feel for you.

How about writing?

I'm beginning to think that maybe it's a lack of energy at the moment...reading (and my daily hour-long walk) are about all I can manage. I'm working from home for about 8 hours a day and even that is more sitting time than I can handle until the bruising subsides (the brace that I have to wear when I'm doing anything but laying down squishes the painful areas, or else it's not on tight enough). I'm going to resign myself to reading and watching movies/tv laying down with a laptop on my chest for a little while longer.

The only chores on my to-do list are change the sheets, wash a small load of laundry, and emptying the dishwasher...and that's been too much for me to do for the last 3 days. Sheesh.

Thanks for the help guys :) Glad for all the book suggestions - and glad the library is within walking distance!

+1 on the Teaching Company's videos

I'd hold off on getting a dog until you're able to bend, twist, and lift more than 10lbs easily. There's a lot of all of that when you've got a dog who likes to go on walks. As I type this, my 110-lb lab is laying in the floor at my bedroom door giving me the occasional sigh and staring at me. I'm sure if I opened my mind to her thoughts, they'd be along the lines of "Wallllk. Walllk. You want to wallllk."

Roxy

Lots of sympathy. I just spent four months off for my shoulder. I was going stir crazy with the lack of physical activity, but work kept me so busy that I didn't have an issue with how to spend my time. So, no words of wisdom, just lots of sympathy.

Hi Jess (fellow burst fracture sufferer) ;)

Am through 4 months and brace free and it is obviously getting better.

I am not into reading, don't especially like TV or even watching DVD's and usually not into walking BUT I did enjoy the walking, perhaps because I had to do it relatively slowly, I was noticing far more and instead of walking for one hour, how about doing 2 x ½ hour walks.

Before I was able to drive I jumped a bus just for a couple of stops, FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE, brill.

Call it being a bit weird but I even bought a pedometer, I am still wearing it and I can gauge how much I am walking, for me it is all motivational.

I spent a lot of time on my laptop trying to find out more about burst fractures and other such exciting subjects. :rolleyes:

Keep in contact with friends, even ones you have lost contact with, today is another day nearer being brace free.

Take care.

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