Here’s an odd thing. I haven’t been able to comfortably wear a watch on my left wrist since my cast came off. It was still too swollen and tender. So I’ve been wearing them on my right wrist, but it just feels wrong.
Anyway, as my arm gets a bit stronger and less inflamed, I’ve found that I can just about get on with wearing a watch on my left wrist again, albeit a metal one still feels a bit uncomfortable.
Today though, I chose to wear my old faithful plastic G Shock digital thing that I use to time myself on the bike or in the pool.
It is not a thing of beauty by anyone’s standards, but I’m kind of fond of it for its functionality.
But here’s the point (at last, I guess you’re thinking?) I wore it in the swimming pool tonight for the first time since my accident and it provided an unexpected and most useful additional benefit. It weighs very little, but it is quite wide and has a wide-ish strap which I wear reasonably tight to stop it moving about too much in use. It was noticeable how much support it gave to my still fairly pathetically limp wrist in the water, and I think it contributed to making my swimming strokes much stronger and more confident. Certainly felt that way anyway.
I’m nowhere near back to my pre-flight times but not so far off them that it doesn’t feel achievable in due course.
Not entirely sure what the moral of this particular story is, or indeed why I begin to think it might be if interest to others, but I suppose if there is one, it is “get yourself a cheap plastic watch if you’ve hurt your wrist “ I guess.
;-)
Last edited by: Runfer D'Hills on Wed 13 Jul 22 at 22:22
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