Should tennis be banned?
Should tennis be banned?
(No. 48) For me, probably. But I'll be back, with a Japanese bath, by Stephen P. Williams
My brief court appearance
Photo by Manny Becerra on Unsplash
Ten years ago I hurt my knee playing tennis and I didn’t return to the courts until yesterday, two days after my 63rd birthday. My good friend, Gay Walley, invited me. She’s approaching 70 years old and just started lessons a few years ago. We had a fun, easy time and then, at the end of our match I tumbled backwards and landed like a cement block on the racket which smashed into my forearm. It feels fractured. Though the doctor told me probably not.
I long for a deep soak in a Japanese tub. Lamentably, I don't have one. A peer-reviewed Japanese study of 38 people recently published in Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine said baths were significantly better than showers at relieving pain, stress, fatigue and mental disturbance. Â
My next home will have a deep tub.
And this newsletter today will necessarily be short, because I’m typing with one hand.
Novelist, playwright, actress: Gay Walley knows what she’s talking about
http://www.gaywalley.com/
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