Last weekend I played in a squash tournament organised by the squash league I've joined here. Because I joined relatively recently, they gave me a rather generous handicap, which meant I was able to get through to the final with the first game actually being the hardest - because the other guy was also new, and had also received a pretty generous handicap.
Anyway, about 3 points into the final I went for the ball, then suddenly felt like someone wacked me on the ankle and I fell over - it was my left Achilles tendon rupturing...
I'm booked in for surgery tomorrow morning - which is better than the alternative of just having it in plaster for 7 weeks - which fixes it, but has a re-rupture rate of between 15-40%. Surgery has about a 5% re-rupture rate.
I'll probably post some nice photo of my (little) shark bite in a few days time.
3 comments:
Sounds like you should stick to mountaineering Lindsay! Hope its working out well for you guys otherwise over there...pretty tough here at the moment - still 23 and sunny:-)
Take it easy on that leg mate...
Dan
your poor thing!!! How is it going?? I guess you have a valid reson for just sitting on the couch now then and let Kerstin do everything boring :-)
I hope you will heal well!
Veronica
Bummer! Hope it all goes well getting it fixed. How long will you be immobile? Maybe I should book myself in for a game of squash while you can't really move, it's the only time I'd have a hope of beating you.
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