Sports and limiting thoughts
I was on track with my training plans, regularly swimming with the FAST masters group in December and January. One morning, I needed to move lanes during practice. To avoid getting in the way of the fast, strong swimmers, I pushed myself up a tall wall so I could walk around to get to the lane I needed to swim in. I paused cuz I didn't want to use my right knee to help hoist myself up and fell on my left rib cage. Once I got to my new lane, I tried to swim ...and swim another day ...and alas it was too painful to breathe. Long story short - the xray showed I had three broken ribs. I was told to take some time off from swimming cuz we use our ribs in swimming. Walking and cycling were okay. After two weeks of healing, I tried kicking 2000k on my back, cuz I missed being in the water. My ribs didn't hurt. Then I progressed to swimming gently on my belly, which worked pretty well. It's been 1 1/2 weeks of careful, gentle sw...