Sunday, May 17, 2015

The curse of a bruised femur

Just two weeks ago today, I took a bad fall from my mountain-bike and bruise my left femur. Bone bruises when they occur are breaking open capillaries, allowing blood to leave the circulatory system and showing up all over in colorful marks.

They can cause excruciating pain for quite a long time and these can be felt the more intensely at rest, especially in bed. The worst intensity of pain for me was day number 10 and it appears that finally the pain is slowly subsiding.

I know from experience how bad femur bruises can be and have found out that they take a very long time to heal. Excellent experiences for building up both tolerance to pain and patience!

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