Chronicles of a Broken Body

6 Months Later

Well today marks the 6 month anniversary since that fateful, sunny, March Colorado afternoon that I broke my leg. I am doing limited walking, I can bike relatively pain free, my yoga arsenal is increasing bit by bit and yesterday I went rock climbing for the first time since the accident! I can’t walk very…

Summer 2022

(most of this was written sometime in July, just getting around to editing it and such, check out the rest of Chronicles of a Broken Body for this to make more sense) My hair is growing out quite a bit, funny the way it serves as a clock, keeping track of the passing time with…

The Healing Process

It has been just shy of two months since I have had a plate and 3 screws put into my Tibia Plateau (Knee region) and a titanium plate into my skull to ensure both bones grow back as they should. I went back to my doctor at the 6 week mark and got the okay…

Reflections, Early Spring 2021

I found a piece of paper, carefully folded among the pages of my journal. It was from about this time a year ago, I was on the mend of a broken ankle. I remember biking out to the river, with my walking boot strapped carefully over an ankle that was still in the process of…

You Can’t Always Get What You Want

You know that song by The Rolling Stones, it goes something like “you cant al-ways get what you wannttt, but if you try sometime, you just might find, you get what you neeedddd”. Its one of my favorite songs, (although my favorite rendition if by Rusted Root) not for the tune, nor the melody but…