u/gavin226

I finally moved into my own place recently and I loved the whole living alone thing… right up until last week.

At around 2am I woke up because I heard this weird rushing water sound from the bathroom. You know when you wake up half asleep and your brain immediately jumps to the worst possible scenario? For some reason I genuinely thought there was somebody in the apartment, maybe a robber decided to take a shower…

I walked into the bathroom and instead found water absolutely everywhere…

Turns out a pipe behind the shower cabin had burst and the whole bathroom was flooding. And because it’s an apartment, my first thought wasn’t even my stuff… it was oh no, the neighbors downstairs are gonna kill me…

I managed to shut the water off, but by then it looked like a small indoor swimming pool. Since it was the middle of the night I started panic-googling emergency plumbers and found Top Flow Plumbing Services in Wollongong because apparently they actually respond 24/7 and have an emergency crew.

The rest of the night was basically me running around with towels, trying to dry the floor, moving stuff out of the bathroom, and questioning every life decision that led me to adulthood.

Somehow they got it sorted out enough that I could at least take a shower in the morning and still drag myself into work

Barely slept though….

Nothing makes you feel like a real adult faster than dealing with a burst pipe alone at 2 in the morning

As you can guess from the title I had a pretty nasty fall at the gym that ended up messing up my wrist. Nothing dramatic in a broken bone sense, but it was definitely one of those injuries that lingers longer than you expect

At the time it felt like a big setback, especially because I was training pretty consistently…

Fast forward to now and it’s mostly fine in daily life. I’m back to doing normal stuff around the house, working, all that. A few weeks ago I decided to ease my way back into the gym again. Nothing crazy and I’m not trying to jump straight back into heavy lifting or pretend nothing happened. Just starting slow, rebuilding strength bit by bit.

That said, some exercises still feel a bit off. Not painful exactly, just… weaker in that wrist compared to before. You kind of notice it more when you’re paying attention to form and control.

One thing I did notice is how many people at my gym wear something like a support brace during pushing or pulling exercises. I never really paid attention to it before, but now it’s hard to unsee…

Is it worth trying something like that while I’m easing back in, just to give the wrist a bit more stability without overthinking every rep?

Curious if that helps people in practice