Back Surgery

So now that I am stuck at home for the next three months, I have got some time to kill. Well, I should take that back. I have lots of time to kill. My mum says I just should not have done that jump, but it was not the jump. The combination of dehydration, weak core strength and hypermobility is a recipe for trouble. If it was not that jump it would have been a different jump. Looking on the bright side though having an MRI was cool, and I never will say no to watching Star Wars for three months; realistically, I will be spending the next three months well doing school work and 11+ prep until summer and then spending the summer wishing I could go outside. Now that you have heard my dream version of the next three months, and the version that I would tell people if I want them to be sympathetic, I will now tell you what I am actually doing over the next three months. Here is a list: School work and 11+ prep until the summer Stamps: I like stamp collecting Lego Reading R...

Some blogs are there to make money, but this is not a blog like that. This is just me writing about my back. When I say write about my back, I don't mean well. This is my back -- I call it a back because it is at the back of my body. I am just writing a diary entry when I have something to share. “You have broken a vertebrae in your back”. These words came to me as quite a shock, as it is not like I had just survived a catastrophic car accident or some other event like that, I had just been living life. I was playing with my friends in the school playground, and my usual opinion is why do they even build a climbing structure if you have to follow as I would say “English safety standards” so I was not prepared for what happened next! That didn't really need an exclamation mark it was not a dramatic scene in a movie -- it was just me jumping on a bouncy hopper off a 30cm tall platform; see I told you it was not going to be dramatic. With second thoughts, maybe I shoul...