OK - first the boring bit!...
The shoulder is mending well- although it gets really sore and I still have a bone poking up under the skin which looks a bit weird! But as Evel Knievel said: “bones heal and chicks love scars!” (Although Shara doesn’t quite agree!)
Anyway, despite that, I did my first back flip this week and can walk on my hands again, I am running, doing yoga and circuits BUT and this is the but...it is not 100% by a long way and definitely is not pain free.
If it doesn’t stop hurting (a lot!) soon, I might have to get it pinned. But the plan is to rest it a bit more then start filming in early March (God willing) and see how it fares.
My favourite quote is this: ‘Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving in an attractive well preserved body; rather to skid in sideways, body thoroughly worn out, covered in scars and screaming “yahoo! What a ride!”
Thank you for your support and prayers...we will get there and I guess the odd injury is par for the course. (It is just that my list of breaks, smashes and cuts is quite a long one now!) But no-one ever said adventure survival is safe or easy!
Anyway, now for the fun bit!
Last week Shara and I had our third little boy, Huckleberry Edward Joscelyne Grylls, weighing 7llbs 11 ounces and his is pure heaven.
Shara had him at home, (which was interesting, with me armed to the teeth and holding the toolbox at the ready!)and she was amazing. She did it all with no pain relief (I tried to give her an aspirin at half way but then remembered she wasn't even allowed that as it thins the blood!)
The other boys are so happy to have a baby brother. The three Musketeers. Brilliant!
Thank the Good Lord.
Bear x
