I've read a news report out of the UK tonight, that David Tennant has had to temporarily withdraw from his role as Hamlet, on the advice of his physician, due to a back injury.
I do wish Mr. Tennant a speedy recovery, from what can be a horribly painful injury.
As someone who once nearly spent the rest of her life in a wheelchair, and was bedridden for around 6 months from a horrendouly painful injury to a nerve in my back--quite frankly because I didn't want to give up working at the stable, 'cos I adored my job, I know that this is one of the most difficult of injuries to recover from, but, David Tennant is an extremely fit young man, who doesn't actually do any heavy labour which would certainly worsen this type injury, so it is my sincere hope that it is only a pulled muscle or something, that and Mr. Tennant's recovery will be a swift one.
So, Mr. Tennant, I know you will never actually read this, but I do very much commiserate with you, I do know how it feels, and like me in my job all those years ago, I know the misery of the pain can be compounded by not being able to do that which you love to do most.
I don't know how Mr. Tennant injured his back, I got actually run over by one of these:
And then, injured by back again--pinched a nerve--four years later, by trying to show how very butch I still was, by lifting one of these by myself:
