It's now six days since I took my littler "trip" and the bruises on my leg are finally getting better.

Yep, the yellow bits in the picture are the real colour. That's the one bruise that's almost healed. The rest are on the way.

I actually had no idea that I had bruised anything until 4 or 5 hours after we returned home and I mentioned to Jamie that my leg hurt out of all proportion to the injury I had sustained. I started to feel a bit ill so I had a sleep for a couple of hours and woke up with a slightly purple leg. The next day it was slightly more purple. Even more purple the day after that. Then the slight bruises started to fade but the dark purple bruise you can see in the photo just got darker and darker until this morning, when it started to fade a bit too. That's quite a relief because I thought I'd burst the varicose veins that are underneath it and was wondering whether to see a doctor or not.

But now it's fading so I won't bother. Except the bruises itch, which is maddening because they're under the skin and I can't scratch them :P

The bruises are still a mystery though because I never hit any part of my leg that got bruised, as far as I can remember. Go figure.

Hmmm, I wonder if I win a prize for using the word "bruise" 8 times in a single post...