How to Heal a Broken Bone Three Times Faster than the Doctor’s Orders | an herbalist's protocol

and no, it wasn’t because I was taking photos while riding

“We’re human. We’re breakable, and we’re mendable. So often our default is to indulge injury sickness or discomfort, rather than to right it. Because my situation is incomparable to the severity of illness possible though, I’ll leave it at that, delicately.”

Some years ago, I broke my elbow. The doctors said six weeks to heal. I gave myself two, and we made it. I wanted to share how I did this, as I know it will be helpful for the community (but before any of this, a caveat that simply, I’m thankful: That the break wasn’t worse, or anything other than my elbow; that this is the first hard hit in the years I’ve been biking aggressively in NYC; and for everything I've learned that’s allowed me to give this body what it needs to heal—fast.)

and no, it wasn’t because I was taking photos while riding …

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ACCIDENT DAY

I took the day off of work to tend to life. Hopped on my bike and ran the rounds, as is standard weekend practice. Twenty miles later, en route home, feeling the love, I reflected on the appreciable fact that I’d not had a regrettable wreck yet. Rounded a Williamsburg corner casually and life said, get down.