1.   Guilt-ridden, she invites him to put up at their place until a fracture heals, and the trouble with the neighborhood promptly begins.

2.   Linke added that it was possible that the midfielder would be sidelined up to six months while the fracture healed.

3.   Sometimes taping it to the toe next to it will offer a great deal of relief and allow a fracture to heal.

4.   Ten days after his forearm injury earlier this month, a second X-ray revealed the fracture had healed enough that he could play.

5.   But an analysis of an X-ray confirmed the fracture has healed.

6.   The fractures eventually heal, but it takes time.

7.   England coach Sven Goran Eriksson said that Beckham requires proof that the fracture has completely healed before medical staff will allow him to take that final training ground step.