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Palaver indeed and an unnecessary one imo. But, if it happened to me, it's probably happening to others too. It was no surprise to the clinic staff that I'd been left waiting; someone said it happens the other way round as well, and hospital cars call to collect people at times when they're not needed.

This rather endearing and gentlemanly trait of yours, ensuring that your opponent only feels /almost/ thrashed: is there any pattern? Maybe it's an unconscious way of keeping your opponent's interest in another game. Glad to hear that you've found a way to play more than once a week, I'm sure Imnexdor the Younger benefits from a decent adversary.

Be honest, there's no need to invoke your killer instinct in a non-tournament game, is there?

HiHo and I have been for a run up and down the motorway, as the car hasn't moved since early July. I decided not to be foolhardy, and donned the splint. Yikes, but evenso it was hard work and some double handed gear engagement from stationary was needed.

Wrist is fine but rather swollen, feels badly sprained/strained at the mo'. The good news is that the articulation hasn't been affected, although it will take a long time to heal fully - I said I'd googled and reckoned it would take a year before I'd forgotten that I'd fractured it; the doctor agreed. TBH I think it might be longer, but it is a longish time scale; my ankle took two years to come as good as it's going to get, but my ankle did warrant a permanent disability award (I have been allowed to keep the walking stick as I was told I will need it in the future; I prefer to wear walking boots or ankle supports).



I may need to keel over soon ...

Seems fair.

Something does happen, though. You're remarkably consistent in other ways, so what happens towards, or at, the end of the preceding game? Or is it that you decide to deploy the demon serve, or experiment with some other tactic?

Soz, a thud approaches if I don't give in right now ...

G'nite!

I is so dumb, I is. The doctor was surprised at how stiff the wrist was/is, and so was I because my fingers wriggled freely. Thinking about it, there's no reason why I couldn't have strained or sprained it before (or even after, but not during) the impact that fractured it, is there? So the joint has been immobilised to help the bone to heal, but if there's also tissue/ligament and even muscular trauma that's been unsupported (although sometimes compressed within the cast), there could be another injury that also needs to heal. And I said at the time that my wrist needed strapping, because I'd either strained or sprained it; when the xray showed the fracture, the hurting was everywhere else ... really, this time,

G'nite!

I can't attribute my loss of one game to any conscious factor, be it change of serve or tactic.

G'night!

Well of course you can't - if it was in any way conscious, you'd have addressed it yourself, by now

I wonder whether there's something in your body language, concurrent to, or triggering, a sudden burst of determination on the part of your opponent ... or maybe you do realise that a good win will be enough to make you happy, and leave t'other not too disappointed ...

G'nite!

Maybe..

G'night!

Fair enough, I wasn't convinced by my argument either, but hoped it might trigger you into realising what a good trainer or sports psychologist might recognise in seconds.

Update: hmm yes, this is going to be a longer and slower journey to recovery than I'd hoped. Got some help on YouTube, but I can't even attempt some of the basic exercises because I'm locked up solid (and remembering that I've had RSIs on both the elbow and wrist, too). Also, the stretching exercises ... have just made something in my neck go 'klickling' and I seem to have undone whatever good work I might have done whilst waiting for the osteo ... (sorry, but) expletivex3 expletivex2.

I guess all I can do is monitor my body language and see if keeping it consistent changes the result.

I hope you get well sooner than you think

Mr Ubercool does deadpan very well ... don't let your eyes give you away though

I'm now recalling the hours and hours of often uncomfortable rehab I had on my ankle. There was a huge amount of damage to the connective tissue, and permanent dorsiflex impairment; it was a compression injury and my physio thought I was lucky to not have the injury extend to the knee and maybe even the hip. Until the other day, I had assumed (my mistake!) that a simple fracture might mean less collateral damage and a speedy mend. Last night, I remembered that my ex-neighbour, an experienced bone breaker 'I seem to have broken everything, and usually more than once' advised me that it takes a good two years to recover from a fracture (he was right, in my singleton previous experience btw). Ho hum, not that that'll teach me, eh

To take your mind off it:

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That's by far the best suggestion anyone's come up with

G'nite!

G'night!

Whatever that extruding knuckle is called, on the outside of the wrist, it made a brief appearance this evening ... but it seems to have thought 'gah, wossthepoint' and has now sunk back down into the pudge.

Things are improving, in a way I can't quantify. You weren't going to ask whether I'd heard from the physio team, were you? Quite right: no. I haven't

I have been thinking of the opening number again; I think it might be very healing ... ?

G'nite!

G'night!

Still in a call-free zone, still doing the exercises ... things I couldn't do, I can now do (a bit, sort of, pathetically)

It'll get better though.

No mash today since Imnexdoor is away.

I know it'll get better, I'm just grumpy at this second first-hand experience of these things. Never wanted it first time round, pretty disgusted at this variation, pah.

Imnexdor away, again? He's trying to avoid you, so that you'll be in less good shape next time you meet/mash

The rascal...