2 years
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Last week (tuesday to be exact) was 2 years to the day since I ruptured my achilles.
In some respects, I can't believe it's been that long, but in others I can't believe how much has happened since then.
The achilles feels pretty good nowadays. It's definitely not as good as it was before, but I'm sometimes amazed how well I can walk given the injury and the fact that it healed on its own.
I'm still a little weary of it, but I'm able to do most things unimpeded. I still don't really run on it, but that's more from me being rather unfit right now. I would like to get back into a bit of training and the occasional fun run, just to keep fit now that I don't have a weekly sport to play. Though I have been getting back into riding to work once or twice a week, so that's a start.
Labels: achilles
Very Lucky
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
On Sunday, my uncle and his family were coming home from a holiday up the coast with some friends. On the way home, they had a fairly major accident, but thankfully all 3 of them are more or less ok - my uncle has a few fractured vertebrae that they're a little concerned about. It could have been much, much worse, and when looking at the photos, it's hard to see how it wasn't.
They were traveling southbound along the Bruce Highway, each towing their caravans, when my uncle's caravan started to sway. Despite his efforts to get it back under control, the car went into the ditch between the north and southbound lanes, did at least a partial roll, and came to a stop on its side in front of the northbound traffic. Their car was then hit by an oncoming car, with the impact directly on the roof above the front seats.
I'm glad Mum told me they were ok before she described that last bit!
Here's the photos:
Here's all that's left of the caravan:
And here's the newspaper article about it yesterday (click for full-size):
