What a pain

Well .... seems I've over done the comeback. I have been experiencing pain beneath the bottom of my right rib cage for the last few weeks but seemed to manage to play thru it. Put it down to playing too much after a five year layoff and the long term affects of post op scar tissue from a long while back. Anyway a big sneeze Friday sent me thru the roof and basically incapacitated me for a day. Went to the doc's who suspected a rib crack/break which given the voracity of my 4 yr old sons jumping over me didn't seem surprising. X-rays came back okay so it seems that I've damaged cartilage/tendons in my lower ribs. Quite a common thing for golf/tennis etc apparently. Especially with older people like myself who think they are younger than they are and don't stretch/warm up properly (guilty as charged you honour!). Now I'll have to rest up just as things were starting to improve :(. On an interesting note not wanting to disappoint my boy, as I had promised him to enter the father/son comp at the weekend, I did manage to get thru the 9 hole comp without trying to hit the ball hard in the slightest. Strange how little impact that had on shot distance and it improved accuracy. Something to bear in mind for my comeback whenever that maybe.