February 1st, 2021 – 859

~ Sam Shuttleworth

Writing is starting to smooth out, and I’m having a pretty productive day. As it is, I’m feeling a productivity kick so, I’m probably going to be doing an all nighter. That’s not smart per say but I’ve had no motivation for some tasks that have lingered in the flat, so I’m taking advantage of the kick. Really there’s only one thing holding me back still: my foot.

So it’s been 3 months and I am still limping. The pain isn’t stabbing, but it’s feeling pretty raw. It’s starting to get to the point where it’s 95% certain to be a sprain and not 99%. Normal circumstances, I book a day off and go get an x-ray. Given the way the world is, and the Eastbourne DGH being 12th most intense in the country right now, and I’m keen to be careful.

So what do I do? The answer has to be to get back into daily walking and see what happens. If it’s a fracture I’ll feel it pretty fast. If it’s a bad sprain, at this point it’ll hasten the recovery. And, if it stays stable and is just a dull pain, maybe, just maybe, I’ll start rowing again. Lordy do I miss that.

Published by Sam Shuttleworth

I’m Sam, and I live to write. I spent most of the first 8 years of my adulthood trying to balance writing with a large amount of crap in my personal life, until towards the end of 2018 I threw everything out and started afresh with just my writing. I built the new me around one goal: I have to write at least 1,000 words a day. I called this goal 1K, and it changed my life. So long as I write a thousand words a day, the day is a success, and atop that I've managed over time to build the life I wanted all those years. My greatest flaws as a writer is I still use too many adjectives, adverbs, connectives as openers, accidental passive voice and I don't force my work down people's throats enough on pain of extreme and unusual torture. My greatest strength is I know my greatest flaws and I'm working on them.