On June 6th, the day before the bus driver tried to launch me as a missile and broke me so badly, I had just finished Week 5 Run 2 of the Couch-to-5K and was looking forward to Week 5 Run 3 that Sunday. Apparently during my garbled non-stop talking at the paramedics and staff at St Thomas's I kept going on about the delay to my running. Week 5 Run 3 is the first longer run, without intervals and I was really unhappy about having to abandon the attempt.
With the damage to my shoulder, and the associated muscle wastage and loss of condition, I decided the only option was start from scratch, to let my shoulder get back in the swing (literally) of it gently. This weekend I completed Week 5 Run 2, so I am now back to where I was before this whole fun episode started. Tomorrow I'm planning to do Run 3, which feels like I'm finally moving forward past this hellish experience, and the future looks more optimistic. Can't wait.
This morning I attempted to get the train to Hertford, but the timetables weren't what I expected. So I walked. 45 minutes later, arrived at Nuffield in Hertford. Lovely staff, and the pool was great, really quiet and warm. Exercised, swam lengths, and stretched. Then 20 minutes in the sauna and back home on the train. My shoulder is getting more movement each time I swim, and the hard lump in my arm is now just in one small solid line, so hopefully will be gone soon. My shoulder now looks quite normal, with the muscles coming back fast even in less than a week of swimming.
Actipatch update: I stopped wearing it after it started behaving erratically. It wouldn't turn off, then it wouldn't turn on, at first for a few hours then it seemed to recover its equanimity, but then within a few days it turned off permanently and wouldn't come back. So that lasted only 3 weeks, and I didn't feel I needed it enough to risk buying another one that might also be flakey and die prematurely. There is really no pain to speak off in my shoulder now, and on the odd occasion there is some discomfort, ibuprofen does the trick.
With the damage to my shoulder, and the associated muscle wastage and loss of condition, I decided the only option was start from scratch, to let my shoulder get back in the swing (literally) of it gently. This weekend I completed Week 5 Run 2, so I am now back to where I was before this whole fun episode started. Tomorrow I'm planning to do Run 3, which feels like I'm finally moving forward past this hellish experience, and the future looks more optimistic. Can't wait.
This morning I attempted to get the train to Hertford, but the timetables weren't what I expected. So I walked. 45 minutes later, arrived at Nuffield in Hertford. Lovely staff, and the pool was great, really quiet and warm. Exercised, swam lengths, and stretched. Then 20 minutes in the sauna and back home on the train. My shoulder is getting more movement each time I swim, and the hard lump in my arm is now just in one small solid line, so hopefully will be gone soon. My shoulder now looks quite normal, with the muscles coming back fast even in less than a week of swimming.
Actipatch update: I stopped wearing it after it started behaving erratically. It wouldn't turn off, then it wouldn't turn on, at first for a few hours then it seemed to recover its equanimity, but then within a few days it turned off permanently and wouldn't come back. So that lasted only 3 weeks, and I didn't feel I needed it enough to risk buying another one that might also be flakey and die prematurely. There is really no pain to speak off in my shoulder now, and on the odd occasion there is some discomfort, ibuprofen does the trick.
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