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Castening: Day 2 1

May

11

2007

Yesterday, I was bored. Today, I’m restless. Tommorrow, I think I’m going to hit full-on Marge on a plane “LetmeoutLetmeoutLetmeoutLetmeout!” mode. This is going to be a looooong summer.

It is done. And the pegleg has arrived: Yeah, I know it looks goofy as hell, but it works, and that’s all I give a shit about. More pictures at my flickr page, which will be getting updated quite a bit since I now have a whooooooooooole lot of time on my hands and pretty ...

Foot Fiasco Followup 3

Apr

29

2007

I was a bit busy to post about this in the last week or so, partly because I went to various doctors about five times on top of everything else that’s been going on. So now, I’ve finally come to a decision: They’re sticking me in a cast and on crutches for three weeks to ...

Cowboy Up

Apr

17

2007

This is getting more ridiculous on a daily basis. So I went to Dr. Hot Shit, who I’d been trying to get in with for a while (and who I got some strings pulled to get into), in order to get a third and final opinion on my foot. Of course, he thinks something else ...

It Begins Again

Apr

13

2007

My boss’s episode shoots one night tomorrow night (yes, Saturday. Don’t get me started.), then starts shooting for real on thursday, so I’m going to be back in the black hole of 16 hour days for a while. I should have a more concrete update on the Foot Fiasco of ’07 sometime late next week, ...

We’ve Managed to Bargain Them Down To…A Booting

Apr

10

2007

So my orthopedist stuck me in a boot for a couple weeks starting last Thursday to try and stabilize my collapsing arch. The boot is a little hilarious because it has a pump which can allegedly be used to pump up the cast to give more support. It’s about as effective as the pumps in ...

Contraption Update 2

Apr

3

2007

Remember that contraption to replace crutches I was talking about? I was showing the web page to people around the office, asking if they’d ever heard of anyone who’d used it. Turns out not only had my friend Pam heard of it, she knew the guy who invented it (back in the day when it ...

Just Call Me Jack Sparrow

Apr

1

2007

I really want to find out if this awesome contraption is actually a viable alternative to crutches. Because if it is, I’m totally getting one if I have to have surgery. If I do, I’m totally reusing it at Halloween and being a pirate. Arrr!

D’oh

Mar

29

2007

My physical therapist threw in the towel today. I’m not making any progress with anything other than the exercises I’m doing at home, so he doesn’t see much point in me continuing to come in. I can sort of understand, since I can do quite a bit of stuff on my own, and I suppose ...

The Arms Race 3

Mar

26

2007

So in anticipation of probably at least needing some sort of surgery and having to cart my ass around on crutches for a period of time longer than five minutes, I’ve started lifting weights. The last time I was on crutches, I was on them for about three days of actually using them properly, and ...