At my first physiotherapy session on Friday, the therapist started with an oil massage of the scar tissue. Now healed, my wrist shows a thin, five-centimeter line of swollen, hardened skin. I had only dared to touch it gently, but he was working the scarred area firmly while we talked. It was not uncomfortable. It […]
Last Saturday, while changing my bandages, I noticed the wound on my wrist was not healing as it should. I called the ER, thinking I’d be in and out with a fancy new bandage or maybe a couple of stitches. Instead, they found a nasty infection and told me I was staying. Just like that, […]
Last Thursday, I left home on my bicycle. I was heading to a training I had been looking forward to for weeks. Two hundred meters from my front door, it hit me. A car that is. I had seen him approaching from the opposite side of the roundabout, scanning the situation. I thought he had […]