Walking with a pair of crutches is by no means an easy task. It gets harder each time when I rest my weight on the hand grips because my armpits are feeling sore! Perhaps the technique is not right. But hell, who wants to be good with using the crutches? not me! 😀

My two extra pair of “legs”

Got to smile! =)

Two things I probably cannot do this pre-CNY.

1. To queue for Lin Zhi Yuan bak gua! I love the queuing because it gives me a sense of purpose for the long wait. Crazy? but that was my way of staying happy for CNY!

2. To go shop for goodies for CNY. And that’s to say, I will have to miss eating those CNY goodies since I cannot shop for them. Haiz! Now I regret for not buying the goodies earlier.

Oh well, I am so looking forward to a quick recovery. What made me happy today is that I received these images from colleagues in NP. I just cannot stop laughing, if you can guess what went on this images! =)

I was obviously in pain! haha

He is Bond …

James Bond!

As a climber/mountaineer and occasionally a runner, I have always been weary about getting injuries. I supposed minor pain here and there is inevitable, but getting it too often and too serious is scary. Recently, especially the period when I was preparing for Island Peak and Ama Dablam, I have noticed a nagging discomfort on my archilles tendon especially the heel bone area. I felt the stiffness when out of bed in the morning. Apart from this, I also noticed some pain on the groin over the years. The groin pain amplified when I was in Nepal after the AD climb.

My greatest mistake was to have ignored all the minor pain all these while. Believing that if I continue to exercise, it will heal over time and that the condition will not get worsen (it will, if I had been diligent with my pre/post-workout warm up and stretches).Frankly, I have not suffered any major injuries thus I really have little experience on dealing with it especially when it happens to me. The excruciating pain on my groin that I suffered at Lukla was a big scare to me. I cried. Because the pain was sharp, I was not able to stand on my feet.

So on Tuesday (yesterday), I suffered a sharp acute pain on my heel bone (Calcanus) after a round of badminton. I believe that my warm up and stretching exercises were not effective considering that I have not been working out much after my return from Nepal. So Ouch!

There were no swelling and redness, but the area was painful to touch. I could still walk but with an obvious limp.  I went to the nearby restroom hoping to change to my jeans but the pain was too much for me to want to do anything. I decided to go home.  When I got out of the vehicle, it was already too painful to walk. I literally hopped my way home from the car park. The immediate treatment was to apply the RICE treatment. It would have been better if I had ice it earlier …

It has been more than 24hrs since the pain came on. The pain hasn’t gone lesser, and I am still unable to walk with the injured leg. Last evening, a concerned friend (Joe), we share the same birthday and same chinese animal horoscope but 12 yrs a part (ok, nothing to do with anything haha), sent me a set of his used crutches. With the crutches, I can move around in my flat without having to hop and risk injuring the good leg.

I am still pretty much in my high spirit, just hope that this injury won’t last too long. My biggest challenge is not about the walk with a limp, but more so to recover fast enough so that my mum won’t suffer. She has been extremely sensitive to my needs, and knowing very well that all the little routine things I do everyday become difficult for me. Mum is mum, she is just forever so caring. I am appreciating her more.