and then i waited..

so i'm waiting for the end of it now. laying the achilles out on ice every evening - ibuprofen gel in the morning and again when i get back - strapping it up (though bought a good bandage today) throughout the day.. and what. nothing yet. it's really difficult to tell, to be honest. i'm guessing it's edging back to normality, just slowly. god i could do with going for a run.

looking at whether there's any way i could go play football on Wednesday night. would be a good bit of exercise, and probably not so stressful on the achilles as running (right?). and then i could go down the pub with the lads after and watch the Spain-Germany game. not that that's influencing my decision on whether to risk it or anything..

i was interested to see that you can now buy all sorts of pain-relief gel. i only thought you could get ibuprofen gel. the one that caught my eye was voltarol - which i remember taking for a bad knee injury i had when i was at university and practising Tae Kwon Do. i remember it to be damn strong stuff, but maybe i've got that wrong. all i know is that ibuprofen is not only pain-relief, but anti-inflammatory too. maybe that's all i need to know. my plan is to get back to action and have as little to do with the drugs as possible.

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