Walking=very dangerous. Stay in bed, get fat, have a coronary, thats my advice.
Otherwise you could do worse than train with a bunch of professionals to fly a well maintained machine within the limits of your competence.
Go and fly, more people are killed changing a light bulb.
And by the way, most people walk away from light aircraft forced landings after power loss. They are very survivable as long as you stay current with the correct procedures.
Sounds like a journo to me too.