Wishing vs Working 

(aka: It Ain’t Shin Splints)

For all the hoopla about hope, it makes a wretched remedy.

Hope, like it’s sibling - Placebo Effect, is no cure.

Time is often a cure.  Rest is too. But hope, with its wild, wide-eyed, pie-in-the-sky, fly-by-night, put-up-a-fight, just ain’t right to make us alright.

At least, not when it comes to thinking you’ve developed shinsplints even after you stopped running for over a month. (It was actually another stress fracture.)

Lesson learned.

So here’s to hearing when your body says, “hey.” And to having the wisdom of sharing that vital intel with somebody who can make a real difference (in my case, happy to share that it was Dr. Jordan Metzl at Hospital for Special Surgery).

Thanks for reading all the way down here.