Saw my hand surgeon today – it’s been 4 weeks and 2 days since I broke my right radius. It’s healing fine and when I showed him the area of my hand/arm/wrist that hurts – especially when I’ve worked on a computer all day and night – he said that isn’t unusual.

He then showed me how the break altered my bones and asked if I was wearing the splint. I said ‘not really – unless I need to mow the lawn’ and he laughed and said “you obviously have a high tolerance for pain”.

Indeed.