Hi lph! Great to read you're on the mend! I still plan to try another coffee date one 'a these days, but so far I've wound up meeting one PhD student or another for supervision every time I have some hours between a meeting in Oslo and my flight home.

But back to being on the mend ... Swimming. Hmmm. Yeah, but I wouldn't count on it for a while. I looooove swimming, probably more than biking, though I don't get to do it as often. But when I was recovering from a broken ankle, was finally walking around pretty smoothly without a crutch or tape, and had a conference at a hotel with a heated pool ... sigh! Floating was fine, but already the first flutter kick was excruciatingly painful. The resistance of the water was worse than the impact and weight (even MY weight back then! ) of walking. So it took a while more before I could swim. Hang in there, though! You'll be back in the pool eventually. It was only a few extra months between walking and swimming in my case. It was just such a disappointment since I'd expected the order to be the other way around.