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The Revenge of Mr. Cranky Ankle

Mar

22

2007

I had a longstanding follow-up appointment with my orthopedist today. I walked back and he was talking to my physical therapist (whose office is across the hall). After I finished giving the PT a light berating for Tuesday’s fiasco, the orthopedist came in, and started investigating why my foot’s not getting better. His conclusion: Two ...

Road To Hell Good Intentions Yadda Yadda

Mar

21

2007

So Tuesday was a miserably shittastic day for me, because my physical therapist decided one of my legs was shorter than the other. I’d gone in for my weekly physical therapy, and while I’ve been making some progress with Mister Cranky Ankle, it’s been excruciatingly slow. So he did some rather unscientific tests and became ...

It’s The Circle of Life

Feb

13

2007

As you may have noticed, blogging has died down a bit recently. It’s not because I have nothing to say, it’s just because I have nothing interesting to say. The weeks are all the same: Mr. Cranky Ankle gets better, then gets worse. I go to work. I come home. I watch television on my ...

MRI of DOOOOM Says… 1

Jan

26

2007

Bone Bruise! This is basically an intermediate scenario of the two I thought I’d be dealing with. Not as nearly as bad as pain without an obvious cause, but not as good as pain that can immediately be fixed with arthroscopic surgery. Unfortunately, the main treatment for a bone bruise is time, and the recovery ...

DOOOOOOM!

Jan

22

2007

The MRI of DOOOOOOOOM! will be taking place tomorrow morning at 8am. Apparently my insurance company is too cheap to cover an open MRI, so I get the good old Giant Tube of Craptacularness. Always fun for the borderline claustrophobe. In the end, all I want is a damn answer as to why my ankle ...

Cranky/Pants

Jan

21

2007

Still no MRI of DOOOOOOOM yet, apparently the delightful folks at Blue Cross thought I could do with a weekend of sitting in my apartment and watching Rear Window. I had to take the trash out today, and when taking the trash out and getting the mail leaves you whimpering in pain, you know something’s ...

DOOOOOOOOOOOOM

Jan

18

2007

Well, the need for the MRI of DOOOOOOOOOM is official. Went to the doctor this morning, and there are basically two main possibilities about why my ankle has severely regressed in the last four days: POSSIBILITY “BAD.” The ankle is inflamed because pieces of bone have broken off from the location of my avulsion fracture ...

And Now, Deep Thoughts 3

Jan

16

2007

– There is nothing that will wake a cat owner faster from a dead sleep at 4am than the sound of a cat, even halfway across the house, about to puke. – When it’s this cold in LA (37 degrees when I left the house yesterday), does that mean hell’s officially frozen over? – Working ...

Governator Update

Dec

26

2006

In tomorrow morning’s LA Times there’s an update that finally, among many other things, discloses some of the circumstances surrounding the Governator’s skiing accident: A friend who spoke to Schwarzenegger after the accident said the governor was “aggravated” about what happened, describing the accident as a “slow fall” on an icy surface. Schwarzenegger’s press office ...

Meet The Limpers

Dec

20

2006

Meet George (70 years old). He managed to ski several runs despite a) a pinched nerve that causes chronic back and leg pain and b) falling once on his own, and c) getting plowed into by a snowboarder. Because of b) and c), he was sore enough that he was not able to ski today. ...