So, ignoring the scars by my knuckles and those down on my arm, please witness the horizontal scar that lays across my right wrist – it is now just a reminder of all the pain, restrictions and, um, whining from the past few years (not to mention the past intense weeks). I think I am now at a turning point, able to do after-work activities and exercises (but of course I will still be ‘taking it easy). I was going to give a ‘thumbs up’ to my recovery but I still don’t think ‘they’ know whether the thumbs up was a good or bad indication in Rome, so a sideways thumb it is, in preparation for the ‘good’ call.