What do you do when you're injured? I broke my collarbone in July and just using my arm for balance has been impossible until recently. It was bad enough to need surgery--bolts, a metal plate, and some kind of tensioner cable holding it all together. Sneezing is the fucking worst; it hurts like hell every time and now I yell when I sneeze which only psychopaths do. I'm finally to the point where I can push around, but I hurt it today just doing kickflips and heelflips here in my basement office. It was easier when I was in a sling and nowhere near able to skate, but now that it's getting better it's driving me crazy. Sometimes I watch clips and parts, the Nine Club, or read Thrasher on the potty, but sometimes I don't want to think about skating because it just bums me out that I can't get back out there yet. My four-year-old takes turns with his Tech Deck with me, and that's fun, but really nothing helps. I think I'm just going to be grinding my teeth until I can skate again. I've done some good reading during my off time, put in extra time at work to bank some skating hours for when it's healed, tried to exercise enough to be in skating shape (I'm 37 so I have to do a little maintenance no matter what to stay in skating condition), smoke weed on and off, and have done a lot of hiking and camping the past month or so, but this sucks. Skating keeps my life in balance like nothing else. A few days ago, my 12-year-old dog died and I said fuck it and pushed down the road and back for an hour to get my mind right, avoiding walnuts on the asphalt in the dark and somehow not crashing. How do you all cope when you're on the mend for months? Thanks for reading my rant.