Laugarvatn in October (Aka Enforced Heel Rest)
Anna started complaining of an achy heel a few weeks ago, and it only got progressively worse as time went on. Since it just didn’t seem like it was getting better, and she’d starting limping around, I took her to the health clinic on 1 October, where she was diagnosed with “Sever’s Disease“.
Basically (if the diagnosis is correct), there’s a growth-line in her heel bone which is inflamed (and so are bits of the Achilles tendon). This is apparently pretty common in kids that are growing fast (going through puberty) and practice sports with a lot of jumping and running (such as team handball). It’s supposed to completely go away on its own as the growth line settles down, but until then she was told to take it easy for 2 weeks in the hopes that it would get better.
So we tried that. Having Anna take it easy. And it. Just. Didn’t. Work.
She’d literally come home from school every day (or every other day if we were lucky), and tell us just how she’d somehow managed to re-strain her heel. It was an impressive list of mangling techniques.
In order to save her from herself, we therefore decided to elope to the countryside for the weekend, armed with a ton of Donald Duck comics from the library. And by golly, it worked! She got through the weekend without re-injuring herself, and we got a nice weekend at Laugarvatn for our troubles. (16 images total)
At Finnur’s parent’s summer house by Laugarvatn.
